Hamlet's Question to Be or Not to Be

There is this moment in the soliloquy where Hamlet calls death the undiscovered country, again, from whose born no traveler returns. The idea is that this undiscovered quality injects dread into us because we have no idea what to find there. We're in a position of absolute unconditioned ignorance in relation to it. There are many people who have experienced dying or maybe near death experiences.

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