The document discusses Lucretius' views on death from his work De Rerum Natura. It compares his views, as an atheist Roman philosopher, to those of Socrates from Plato's Apology. Both thinkers saw death as nothing to fear. Lucretius believed in atomism and materialism, which led him to conclude that the soul dies with the body and there is no afterlife. Like Socrates, he saw death not as an end but a release from life's pains and troubles.