Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 Soliloquy

Hamlet is debating whether it is better to be alive and be courageous or to be dead. He says how to die is similar to sleeping it gets rid of your heart-ache and all the many troubles life throws at you. When you sleep you dream but Hamlet wonders what dreams you might have when you are in death sleep. He is saying why wouldn't you kill yourself rather than put up with all of life's problems. Then he thinks that the people who don't spare their lives and deal with their burdens are scared of something after death. He states that no one has returned from this undiscovered country, death, and this causes much confusion about what it is really like. He calls those who are too scared to experience death, because their questions are not answered so they know nothing about the unknown place, are cowards because they'd rather suffer through life. Because of this fear things of great magnitude and importance get a loss of consideration and men lose their natural sense of courage. He then hears Ophelia coming so he becomes quite and changes the subject.