To be, or not to be

Chantler's April 2014 Shakespeare Challenge - To be or not to be

To be, or not to be, that is the question—
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep—
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,

Hamlet

This sonnet contemplates life itself, whether its better to live, or die.
Fittingly, I was at a funeral today. I drove down to London for a family funeral, for a dear old lady who had simply run out of life. This is the crematorium - the Garden of Remembrance. She was someone who had always loved life, but had spent a number of years dealing with parts of her body going increasingly wrong.

I couldn't answer the question Hamlet poses - is it nobler to live or die? It is how you do both that matters.