The Phaedo tells of a death, that of Socrates. But the story of these singular farewells is an opportunity to have a different discourse on this subject. Because Socrates dies after speaking, after tearing off his frightening “mask” of a witch from death, and betting on the immortality of our souls. With him, death and philosophy engage in the same work as Penelope, undoing what life has woven and freeing the soul from forgetting itself. It is impossible to read this dialogue quite as one would read another. Plato, who was neither present at this last interview nor at these last moments of the master, elevates them to a truth higher than any historical accuracy. And Socrates, who “tomorrow” will no longer be there, is present as he has never been.