"drowned herself in her own defense"DiscussionAct 5,Scene 1Lines 6-7Discussion about Ophelia's death in Act 5, Scene 1 of myshakespeare's Hamlet. First Gravedigger How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defense? Since killing someone out of self-defense is not a sin, the First Gravedigger is proposing that Ophelia somehow drowned herself out of self-defense.