When we discuss the soul, we are often given the image of the soul imprisoned in the body. So death is a kind of liberation from this prison. Only through death can our soul achieve that liberation where we will not make any choices based on distraction. Socrates concludes that the soul is that which goes through states of change. Surely Socrates wants to argue that the body dies while the soul continues to live, free from the body. The Soul is something distinct from the part of the human body, something that enters the body and imbues it with life, but which can exist independently of it. The soul gives life to the body, but has no life independent of the body. Therefore the soul is master of the body. After concluding his myth, Socrates observes that the time has come to drink the poison. He states that after his death, his soul will leave his body and live eternally. The body he left behind is not Socrates, because Socrates' soul will no longer inhabit it