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.

Hamlet compares death to sleep, wondering what dreams might come after life ends. In this passage, “the sleep of death” means dying, so A, “dying,” is correct.

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