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isn't distressed at the prospect, but happy.
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He's happy that the final separation will take place
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and he'll be able to go to heaven.
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The dialogue ends, of course, with the death scene--
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Socrates has been condemned to death by the Athenians,
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and it ends with his drinking the hemlock,
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not distressed but rather sort of joyful.
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And the dialogue ends with one of
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the great moving death scenes in western civilization
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and as Plato says--
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let's get the quote here exactly right--
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"Of all those we have known,