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"drowned herself in her own defense"
Discussion
Act 5,
Scene 1
Lines 6-7

Discussion 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.