Who are the people who die in "Hamlet"? Who is responsible for each death? How is each killed? Make a list to submit that includes the above...

Your obituary will be fairly lengthy as nearly everyone dies in Hamlet! First of all, we never meet King Hamlet as his Ghost walks the parapets in the opening scene. He is the first to fall to his brother, Claudius,who wants the throne and Gertrude, King Hamlet's wife. Next, Hamlet kills Polonius as he hides behind a tapestry, spying on Hamlet and his mother, Gertrude. Hamlet says he will kill the 'rat' and discovers who it is after he has stabbed him. Next, Ophelia drowns in a watery grave distraught over her lover, Hamlet, killing her father, Polonius.Then, Claudius hatches a plot with Laertes, Ophelia's brother who craves to avenge his father's death, to have a fencing match with Hamlet. Except, he will put poison on the end of his blade to be sure that Hamlet dies. Claudius, always the careful one, decides to put poison in the wine also, for double surety of Hamlet's death. The match begins. Hamlet is struck by the poison blade; Gertrude unwittingly drinks the poisoned wine and dies. Hamlet and Laertes scuffle and the rapiers change hands, and Hamlet, unknowingly, strikes Laertes with the poisoned blade. Laertes dies. Hamlet, not quite dead yet, makes Claudius drink the remainder of the poisoned drink, and Claudius dies. Then, Hamlet dies. The only man left alive is Horatio who is charged by Hamlet, in his last words to 'tell my story.'