Choosing to “not be” the only path to autonomy in an otherwise tragic life. One wonders if Ophelia's death was a suicide, but with the help of the gravediggers' words: "If the man goes into that water and drowns, it does, will he , he leaves. Write this down. But if the water comes to him and drowns him, he does not drown himself. Argal, he who is not guilty of his own death does not shorten his own life. (5.1. 228-32), readers may assume that his death was deliberate (Dane