Hamlet gives a religious perspective on the situation by saying, “Conscience makes cowards of us all.” It makes everything more intense. He talks not only about his suicide, but also about his mission to avenge his father's death by killing his father's murderer. There are many times in the play where Hamlet has the opportunity to kill Claudius but turns away. He does this because killing someone is a sin. It also scares him about 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 sort of thing, the more it will cause him not to 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 considering suicide. A list of everything he says he hates in life can be found in the following lines: For who would endure the whips and scorns of