Socrates was asked questions all the way to the end. In this painting Socrates is just about to drink the hemlock that will poison him and carry out his death sentence. The people around him are all terribly upset about Socrates demise. Socrates argues that death is just another part of life and only a short span of the eternity that the mind knows and the body does not. It is human nature to question the unknown and step boldly into it when necessary. Socrates is about to take one for the Philosophical Team.
"All we are is dust in the wind"
-Bill S. Preston Esquire
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