What did Hamlet think about death in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet?

In
Shakespeare's , the play abounds with images of death from the very
beginning.

At the start,is struggling with his father's death; he greatly
resents his mother's hasty remarriage to his father's brother (and Hamlet's uncle) . He is so
distressed that he has considered suicide and is upset that God has forbidden it:

HAMLET:

O, that this
too too sullied flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a
dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd

His canon
'gainst self-slaughter! (I.ii.132-135)

At the beginning,
Hamlet does not seem to be concerned with dying. Hamlet is given to believe that life after
death is not pleasant, specifically for those who have died with sins still upon their souls at
deathwhich is the way his father, Old Hamlet, died.

By the end of Act One,
Hamlet goes to see ifon the battlements is really his father. Old Hamlet relates that he is in
purgatory where "for a time," he must walk at night and burn in the fires during the
day. The ghost...

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