The discussion below talks about Ophelia overhearing Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy which then plants the idea of suicide in her mind. Was her death a suicide? I know the church (and the gravediggers) believe Ophelia committed suicide, but I don't find anything in Gertrude's account of her death to indicate it.

There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.

She's sitting on a treebranch, making garlands when it breaks, dropping her into the water. Now, is it because she makes no attempt to get out of the water that it is thought to be a suicide? I think she was too mad to even be aware of what was going on, I mean, she's floating in the water singing songs.

Of course, all this begs the question, why, if someone was cloase enough to her to be able to see Ophelia making garlands and falling into the brook, do they not pull her out of the water?!