In this article you can read the Italian translation of the original Latin text of a text taken from the writings of Cicero, entitled “The type of burial does not matter”. The text describes how philosophers care about where they are buried.

Many philosophers were not interested in living or dying and had no cure for burial. Do we not admire the strength of the soul of Theodorus, a philosopher Cyrene not unknown? In fact when the tyrant Lysimachus threatened him with the cross he said: << He also threatens these tremendous pains to these men of your court who always fear death and pain! Instead, Teodoro do not care to die underground or in the high sky. >> I also think of Socrates who, having played on the immortality of souls and when the time of death, when questioned by Crito of Alopece in which place he wanted to be buried, said: “Much effort,” he said, “I spent unnecessarily, oh friends!” I have not convinced our Crito of Alopece that after death I will fly away from here, nor will he (he convinced me) that something will remain of me. Nevertheless, oh Crito, if you can get something out of me bury me as you think fit. But believe me, when I leave this place, none of you will take me back >>. Diogenes was the most rigid, as was to be expected from a cynic, who ordered him to leave him buried in any place. So the friends << Won’t we leave you to the beasts and the birds? >>. He said: “Not at all, but put a stick with me so that I can drive away the beasts.” “How can you if you don’t feel sensations? »« So, not at all for me, that I won’t be able to feel, will interest what the beasts with their torment do of my body.