Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy starts with: “To be or not to be? That is the question.” Even most who have never read Shakespeare would be able to recite this quotation. What Hamlet is really contemplating is whether it is better to live or better to die.
Perhaps if the famous playwright William Shakespeare had been a veterinarian as well as a playwright then perhaps the famous opening line would have been: “To spay or not to spay? Is that even a question?” My meaning being that perhaps it is better not to have been born at all than have been born in to a potentially short life of misery and suffering.