Who survives to tell the story of hamlet?

In Shakespeare's play *Hamlet*, Horatio is the one who survives to tell the story.

Here's why:

* He is the only major character to remain alive at the play's end.

* He is the closest friend to Hamlet. He is entrusted with the task of telling the tragic story of Hamlet's life and death.

* The play ends with Horatio's famous lines: "And let me speak to the yet unknowing world/ How these things came about."

While other minor characters like the gravediggers survive, Horatio is the central character who survives the carnage and becomes the narrator of the events.