In Act III, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Shakespeare suggests that when given the option between life and death, individuals often choose life because committing suicide is not a resolution to life’s troubles. He develops this argument through Hamlet’s Soliloquy in which Hamlet contemplates whether or not he should commit suicide after learning that his uncle murdered his father. In his soliloquy, Hamlet compares death to sleep and the afterlife to dreaming. Hamlet claims that sleeping and dreaming are the resolutions to ending a person’s troubles. However, he mentions that there is no way to know that after death, those troubles are actually resolved. The soliloquy contemplates the uncertainty of what may come in the afterlife