To Be or Not To Be

In the Famous "To be or Not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet speaks in a time of sorrow. His uncle has just killed his father who was king, married his mother, and deprived him of his right to be king.

In the beginning of the soliloquy, Hamlet ask if he should consider suicide over actually taking action and killing his uncle knowing that the pain may not go away after death. He wonders if life is worth living while suffering the cruel events that were brought to him. He thinks death is like a big sleep in which you dream, but he wonders if this big sleep will "give us pause" and take all the suffering away or if it will continue on. He explains how in this world we are faced with great sufferings that we must overcome and how even all these sufferings, there is still more fear for death. This fear that is puzzled in our minds of what is after death is the same thing that keeps us from committing suicide and it's what kept hamlet from that too.

If I was confronted with a similar path, I would not want to suicide either. I would think of the unknown, but in life not death.