... sees that dreamless sleep is an advantage of death and death, as a matter of fact, throughout the whole time is just no longer than a night. However, I disapprove with his statement on how death is seemingly just a dreamless night. Scientifically speaking, during human's deepest sleep, our brain still functions to keep our cells working and helping us to stay alive. Clearly, as long ... whole time. Ironically, Socrates makes a conflict point when he compares dreamless sleep to death. First of all, death is not dreamless sleep in a single night because being dead means that there is no w...

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... no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is a journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this?...I, too, shall ... ...

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