Shakespeare chooses to have the death of Macbeth take place off stage, because it is a battle scene, full of chaos. Therefore, the audience must imagine the events in their minds. By having the action not dominate the stage, the audience remains transfixed on the dialogue and engaged in the play.
Violent murder scenes are best left to the imagination, especially when they are not the most important part of the play. The relationships between the characters and the message or lesson that is revealed through the interactions is more important that the actual murder scenes.
Once an audience sees a grisly murder scene, they would become distracted and focused on the murder, the blood, and so on. Not really the focus of the play, so by keeping it off the stage, Shakespeare keeps the audience enthralled in the spoken word to find out what actually happens at the end.
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