‘The Dread of something after death’ is one of the lines from Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘to be or not to be.’ The phrase is about Hamlet’s fear of death and what comes after it. Just before this line, Hamlet was talking about how death would be a relief, which means now he is contradicting himself. This section is mainly about how Hamlet would welcome death, but he also fears it. He goes onto say that people’s own minds make them cowards. This is contradicting Hamlet himself as he is brave in body and mind, apart from when he lets his thoughts wonder to things such as death and destruction. Hamlet doesn’t seem to be able to decide how he feels about certain things which makes people think that he is insane.