Hamlet, (act iii, scene i) to be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? to die: to sleep; no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd. to die, to sleep; to sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause: there's the respect that makes calamity of so long life; in this excerpt from one of hamlet's soliloquies, he contemplates life and death. what is his attitude toward death? a) hamlet believes that death is a quiet, somber event that is best carried out alone. b) hamlet believes that death is an endless, pleasant "sleep" in which the dead have wonderful dreams. c) hamlet believes that death is fearful and violent and that living (even miserably) is preferable to death. d) hamlet believes that while death may look like "sleep," it is actually a great unknown and the reason more men don't commit suicide.