"To be or not to be, that is the question." Hamlet ask him self in this soliloquy whether to die or to live. Hamlet justifies dying because it could ease his current pain. For instance, "To die- to sleep- No more - and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh his heir to." But as the poem goes on Hamlet starts to contemplate what if the unknowns of death is worse then he thinks it is.
Personally Hamlet needs to man up and face his problems head on. Nothing good ever comes from avoidance, unless a crazed man is chasing you with a knife of coarse. Anyways, putting problems off to the side causes one to dwell on the subject and will eventually tear themselves apart. Hamlet is a perfect example of this, he wants to kill himself. Thankfully Hamlet has a conscience which keeps him from taking his own life.
At the end of the soliloquy Hamlet is interrupted by Ophelia as he notices her in the room looking upon him. This leaves the readers and or audience hanging because we still do not know the rest of his thought process on the matter. Until a couple pages later you learn that he does find it worth while to live because someone has to revenge his fathers death.
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