Plato shows us how Socrates goes to his death in complete peace and composure. The death of Socrates is a beautiful death. Nothing is seen here of death's terror. Socrates cannot fear death, since indeed it sets us free from the body.... Death is the soul's great friend. So he teaches; and so, in wonderful harmony with his teaching, he dies.

A Better Hope for the Soul, The Watchtower magazine, 8/1 1996.