Discuss Socrates views on death

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is
better God only knows.”
In Apology by Plato, Socrates does not intend to convince his audience that they can
eliminate their fear. Rather, he intends to lessen the extent to which they fear death and to
convince them that risking death is always better than committing injustice. He argues that
the greater a person’s fear of death, the more willing she is to commit unjust or cowardly
acts. Socrates, I contend, indicates through the course of his defence that he has left the two
desires unsatisfied, one is emotional attachment and the other is making oneself an easy
target for violence is better than the injustice required to protect oneself and that it has led
to his unjust prosecution and his inability and unwillingness to protect himself and his
family.
In any case Socrates is saying that death is not a bad thing, firstly we don't know whether
it's a good thing or bad thing and secondly if we start making assumptions about it it starts
to look like it's a good thing. Lastly we know that there are some bad things that are worth
taking into consideration that we want to avoid rather than trying to avoid death.
Socrates gave an example that the soul is like a cloak made by a weaver, and just as the
cloak continues to exist after the death of the weaver, so too the soul must outlast the body.
Socrates hold an apathetic or neutral view on death. He claims to possess no fear of death.
His philosophy was that because he does not know what happens upon death, he has no
reason to fear it, for fear is not an empty emotion. He believed that fear required meaning.
To fear something is to believe that it is bad. The way he looked at it was: How would I
know whether or not death is bad unless I've experienced it? Basically, his view of death
was: it could be good just as likely as it could be bad.