To be, or not to be: that is the question.
— Hamlet, Hamlet · William Shakespeare
To live, or to die — that is what I am really asking.
Hamlet weighs existence itself: is it nobler to endure suffering or to end it? The soliloquy is not really about a single decision to die but about whether the fear of the unknown — 'what dreams may come' — is the only thing that keeps any of us bearing life at all.