I like Socrates' Apology, in which he expressed his views on death.
He knew he was going to be sentenced to die:
Two Possible Outcomes of Death - Eternal Sleep or Transmigration

How can anyone fear something that they have no idea about? To Socrates it would seem foolish to be afraid of the unknown. To him death does not seem evil because it is one of the following two options.
One outcome involves the idea of eternal sleep. Death could be seen as sleeping without dreams, without thought or consciousness. Socrates says that it would be the best kind of sleep as one would attain complete and absolute relaxation and tranquility. It would be a form of deep sleep that would continually refresh the person who would remain carefree and without worries for all time.


The second option would be that the soul transmigrated to another place, known as metempsychosis. Socrates would love that to happen, as he could get together with all the previous great souls, such as Homer and get to know those past masters. They would converse and share knowledge about their sufferings on earth. If that were the case, Socrates would actually be ready to die several times over to meet those great minds.
As can be seen, Socrates is a proud and fearless person who would rather die for his principles and ideas rather than refute them. Death to him was not to be feared and he fully accepted the final judgment of the jury, the death sentence that was later imposed upon him.

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