According to Webster's Desk Dictionary, grief is defined as "severe mental suffering from affection or loss" (397). Various characters in Hamlet choose to deal with grief in different ways, many of which are ultimately harmful. Ophelia suffers two setbacks throughout the play, one is the death of her father and the other is Hamlet's disrespectful treatment. His brother Laertes also faces the death of Polonius, as well as that of Ophelia. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet is saddened by the murder of his father. His pain is what triggers his quest for revenge and his battle to kill Claudius. Over the course of the show, grief takes center stage in many of the character's lives, but everyone chooses to react to it differently. Pain takes many distinct shapes and forms, and until people learn to overcome it, it will remain an integral part of life. One way to escape the pain is to commit suicide, as Ophelia seems to do. The gravedigger proclaims: "She who voluntarily seeks her own salvation must be buried in a Christian burial" (Act V Scene I lines 1-2). The undertaker wonders why a woman who took her own life deserves such an elegant funeral. When the queen informs Laertes and Claudius of Ophelia's death, she says, "...she [Ophelia] sang snatches of old tunes" (Act IV, Scene VII, Line 195). Ophelia didn't know how to express her pain except through song. In Act IV, he sings of Polonius: "He is dead and gone, lady, he is dead and gone" (Scene V, lines 31-32). Suicide AwarenessVoices of Education (SAVE) proclaims: “When a person faces their pain, lets their feelings emerge, talks about their pain… that is when the focus is to shift from death and dying and promote… to half of the paper... as if he treated Ophelia very badly, and her death must hit him even harder knowing that she died without his love. Many sources on grief state that it is something that must be dealt with or Ophelia will never go away she never faces her grief, but it disappears when she drowns. She resorts to singing to solve her problems, while Laertes resorts to violence. He believes that he will feel relief once Hamlet is dead and does not act for some time. Also strong feelings about how her mother should take more time to mourn her ex-husband. These three characters sometimes endure the same kind of pain, but they choose to react differently right or wrong to grieve, but as many characters in Hamlet discover, grief can take over a person's life and lead to ruin..