To Be and Not to Be

Imagine Hamlet holding the skull.
Then he says the famous line: To Be or Not to Be?

Is it a question or is it simply a statement?
An acknowledgement.
To Be or not to Be?

Shakespeare rhetorical question is the most intricate piece of psychological thriller one can try to solve.
To start with.
Do we have a choice?
It is a tricky question.
One designed to ground and stop you in your tracks.
Designed to force you to ponder your own existence.
Let's try to distance ourselves from the question.
Instead let's evaluate its logic from computer science perspective.
The logic here is fairly simple.
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(1) To Be = alive
or
(2) Not to Be = dead
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Ok so let's assume the above is a part of an 'IF' loop somewhere in the Universe code.
If  you are 'alive' then statement (1) evaluates to 'true'
You are alive.
Then
You can perform the following functions:
breathe, eat, sleep, love, have, etc.
Next we have logical operator - 'or'
Meaning that if statement(1) is not true then we look at the statement(2)
As the human beings we can only have two states:
alive
dead
So one of these is always evaluates to true.
That is all fine and dandy.
But this logic leads us into nonsense.
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If
(1) To Be = stateX
or
(2) Not to Be = stateY
Then
Do something
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It leads us into dead end.
Because you can only have one statement after 'Then'

Life paradox.
Universe does not care if we alive or dead.
Instead it is evaluates the statement like this:
Alive or Dead
You belong to Universe.
The statement therefore better to be written with an 'and' operator.
To Be And Not to Be.

Decide for yourself how you want To Be.

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Fellowship of The Ring

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”