Hamlet is at once making light of death and exasperating, taunting, and belittling the King.
Outraged Claudius wants to know where Hamlet has stowed Polonius's body. But he doesn't ask Hamlet that, he asks him, "Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?" That's Hamlet's cue to play his little philosophical word games with the King. In the end (pun intended), Hamlet compares the King to a beggar's poop. Funny and gross, it's an idea sure to anger the already fed up Claudius... just what Hamlet wanted all along... to "catch the conscience of the King." Oh, he has the King's attention for sure!
Finally, Hamlet tells the King to go to hell:
KING:
Where is Polonius?
HAMLET:
In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself.
Ah, perfect!
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