What's the difference between taking Hemlock or accepting crucififiction as suic

Question:

What's the difference between taking Hemlock or accepting crucififiction as suicide?

Philosophers and Christians are more alike than they realize. I'd like to hear the arguments from both as to why the other is wrong and your's is right.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Being a philosopher does not disqualify you from being a Christian, or vice versa. Personally, I know a man who went to both Notre Dame and Oxford (I don't know exactly the path he took, but I believe he did two years at both) as a philisophical scholar and is a hard-core Catholic.

Anyway, I'm not sure I see the conflict. Jesus was sentenced to death and accepted it because it was a necessary step toward what he envisioned as a plan to save mankind. Socrates, while I don't think he saw himself on the same level as Christians view Jesus, similarly took the hemlock because to deny it would be to deny his entire philosophy, which he saw as a necessary part of what he envisioned as a plan to save Athens.