If you read the accounts escape would have been quite easy. His followers urge Socrates to leave and agree to help him (he had no small amount of supporters). But he says no.
When you kill yourself, even if the government has told you that you have to, it's suicide.
The same argument you are making that it is not a suicide could apply to ancient Japan as well.
When you kill yourself, even if the government has told you that you have to, it's suicide.
The same argument you are making that it is not a suicide could apply to ancient Japan as well.