Throughout the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet discusses death in several
             different ways. His ultimate mission throughout the play is to avenge the death of his
             father. Hamlet's uncle Claudius poisoned his father and took the throne. During the time
             leading up to the moment of him finally assassinating Claudius, Hamlet contemplates
             death and its consequences. He considers suicide and he ponders about the afterlife both
             Hamlet considers suicide at times during the play. In his "To be or not to be"
             soliloquy, Hamlet elaborates on suicide and whether or not it is something for him. On
             one hand, suicide is a release from the burdens and hardships of life, an "end [to] the
             heartache and thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to" ( III, i, 61-63 ). It is a cowards
             way to escape difficulties in life. Any man can kill himself if he really wants to. For a
             man to kill himself when faced with adversity or difficulties in life is a sign that that
             person is weak in mind and at heart and is a coward. When people are confronted with
             troubles, they can not always escape them by suicide. They need to suck it up, stay tough,
             and "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" ( III, i, 57-58 ). On top of this,
             nobody knows what exists after death. Death is an "undiscovered country from whose
             bourn no traveler returns" ( III, i, 79-80 ). This idea of uncertainty towards the afterlife
             and its true nature causes people to refrain from suicide and "makes us rather bear those
             ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of" ( III, i, 82-82 ). In the end, Hamlet
             decides to "bear the whips and scorns of time" ( III, i, 70) and to continue on in his
             Hamlet spends a fair amount of time speculating about the physical remains of the
             dead and what people's lives on earth really meant. He desc
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