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The person who came up with the idea of using that quote from Hamlet was probably thinking that this “consummation devoutly to be wished” meant that the hand he’d been dealt was a good thing. Quite to the contrary, Hamlet, in the famous “To be or not to be” dialogue was addressing the existential questions of life and death. ”To die: to sleep: Nor more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to; ‘tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die; to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream:”