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The ghost says that he is stuck in purgatory because he did not have a chance to confess before he died. It would have been less cruel to have killed him as he stepped out of the confessional, but give Claudius some credit here--he's not going to kill Hamlet in such a way that Claudius was going to get caught.

Claudius might have chosen a less nasty poison, one supposes. That would have been less cruel.

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Yes, in Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", Hamlet's father's ghost (the ghost of King Hamlet) tells Hamlet that he was poisoned by his brother while sleeping. That he was murdered by having poison poured into his ear.

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