Many times in life, people have near-death experiences in which they do something extremely dangerous and almost end their lives by accident. I had such a personal experience in which I myself almost died. Last summer, I was driving a four-wheeler with my friend in the back. We did it all day, but we crossed a creek and for some reason everything went horribly wrong. I must have been going too fast, but I hit a rock hidden by the mud, causing a chain reaction of spinning my wheels and hitting the water at just the right time to get the four-wheeler rolling. It was probably one of the scariest moments of my life because I thought I was going to die! Relatedly, Hamlet in Shakespeare's famous plays "Hamlet", was also in near-death experiences in reaction to the choices he made, including not killing Claudius when he had the chance, killing Polonius, and fighting in a duel. In Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Hamlet himself is faced with the challenge of having to avenge his late father by killing Claudius, but he makes the mistake of not killing him when he has the chance. Hamlet was about to kill his uncle, King Claudius, while he was praying, but at the last second he decided against it. Hamlet decided that because Claudius killed his father while he slept, sending his soul to purgatory, it would not be enough revenge to kill his uncle while he prayed, sending his soul to heaven. “Now can I do it, now he's praying. And now I won't. And this is what he does in heaven; And I am also avenged” (Hamlet Act 3 Scene, Pg. 186 Lines 76-79). In this quote, Hamlet talks about how he is going to kill him, and he even draws his sword, but then decides not to. It was a serious mistake that he would soon regret. After the mistake of not killing Claudius, Hamlet went to speak with his mother, where, unknowingly, Polonius had been hiding, and he would make the mistake of killing him. In act 3, scene 4 of Hamlet, Hamlet kills Polonius, who was hiding in the curtains. “Oh, I am slain” (Hamlet Act 3, scene 4, page 190, line 27). Polonius shouts as Hamlet passes him a sword. Hamlet doesn't really think about killing Polonius, even though.