His cause of death has been given as either severe food poisoning from eating a raw ox's foot, rabies from a dog bite, or suicide by holding his breath. This justification is attested in the exhortations to suicide formulated by the Cynics and in the accounts of the self-inflicted deaths of Metrocles, Heracles, Demonax and Peregrinus. He lived in Corinth with Xeniades' family for the rest of his life and died there at the age of ninety. Therefore, as soon as he loses the capacity to practise the Cynic askesis because of the physical limitations brought on by old age or illness, the philosopher does not hesitate commit suicide. To reach and maintain his ideal of freedom, the Cynic must submit his body to a training that requires some physical strength. Suicide is only justified when the philosopher’s body suffers from extreme and lasting weakness. He asked that his body not be buried, but it probably was. He embodied and enacted the incivility decried by those who lament that shame is dead. Diogenes died in poverty in the late 320s, of causes unknownrumors include food poisoning, self-asphyxiation, deadly fever, and old age. Several fragments and testimonies show that the Cynics consider life and death indifferent: what matters above all is to lead a good life. Shamelessness, for Diogenes, was a way of life. This study aims to identify the Cynic foundation of Diogenes’ suicide by reconstructing the Cynic outlook on voluntary death. The heirs of Diogenes have transmitted to posterity that of suicide by self-asphyxiation, a death they deem worthy of his philosophy. It is part of their informal Agent Pendergast series and the second novel in the Diogenes trilogy. Several versions of Diogenes of Sinope’s death are reported in Book VI of the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. Dance of Death is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005.
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