Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil , Must give us pause. What does Hamlet mean by "shuffled off this mortal coil"?

“Shuffled off this mortal coil” is a figurative way of saying that a person has left behind the troubles and burdens of earthly life. In this passage, Hamlet is considering what might happen after death, so the phrase means dying. The correct choice is “dying.”

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