Hamlet gives a religious view of the situation by saying, "conscience makes cowards of us all." This makes everything more intense. He not only talks about killing himself, but also about the mission he took to avenge his father's death by killing his father's killer. There are many times in the play where Hamlet is given the opportunity to kill Claudius but he chickens out. He does it because killing someone is a sin. This also arouses in him the fear of what life after death might be like ("To be or not to be": Hamlet's soliloquy). At the end of his soliloquy, Hamlet decides that the more he thinks about this kind of thing, the more it will lead him to not act. Hamlet talks about how life is not very rewarding and how negative it is throughout his speech. But I still don't think he's contemplating suicide. A list of everything he says he hates in life is in the following lines: For who would bear the whips and scorns of