Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act 3.1) is not primarily about suicide. The words to be mean to exist. Hamlet is pondering the question of existence. He's wondering whether or not existence is worth while.
Suicide only comes in to play because that happens to be one of the ways a person can end existence. He mentions suicide while he is making an analogy or giving an example.
Basically, Hamlet decides existence is not worth the trouble, but the alternative is too scary. The alternative, of course, is the unknown afterlife. Were it not for the unknown afterlife, existence would not be worth the trouble.
Hamlet comes down on the side of existence, in the end, because he doesn't know what lies on the other side of death.
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