When we talk about the soul, we are often given the image of the soul imprisoned by the body. So, death is a kind of liberation from this prison. Only through death can our soul achieve this liberation where we will not make choices based on distraction. Socrates concludes that the soul is that which passes through states of change. Socrates surely wants to assert that the body dies while the soul continues to live, free from the body. The soul is something distinct from the human body part, something which enters the body and gives it life, but which can exist independently of it. The soul gives life to the body, but it has no life independent of the body. Thus, the soul is master of the body. After completing his myth, Socrates notices that the time has come for him to drink the poison. He states that after his death, his soul will leave his body and live forever. The body left behind is not that of Socrates, for the soul of Socrates will no longer inhabit