Hoping to leave the world in a way as uneventful as she believed her life to be, she presumes that her attempt to die will be easy, which offers a twist to the story, when all fails, and she wakes up from a coma in a mental hospital, and is told that her heart has been damaged so badly that she has only days to live. Inspired by events from his past, Coelho tells the story of Veronika, who seems to have everything in life that most people would envy and consider fulfilling, but who nonetheless feels dissatisfied and makes a decision to end her life by overdosing on sleeping pills. She also.As a fan of Paulo Coelho’s much-celebrated and classic book, The Alchemist, I stumbled upon Veronika Decides to Die at a local used bookstore and was intrigued by the topic of the book and the major questions it asks about life and death.
As she waits for them to take effect, she contemplates her choice of method as defined by her reluctance to cause suffering and inconvenience for those she leaves behind. In Chapter 1, in an effort to enact her long-contemplated suicide, mid-twenties Slovenian Veronika takes what she believes to be a fatal dose of sleeping pills. In doing so, the narrative thematically explores the nature of insanity, the importance of living a genuine life, and the threats to individual identity imposed by closed communities and the rules under which they function.
As it tells the story of a young woman's transformation from despairing would-be suicide to affirmed, and affirming, survivor, "Veronika Decides to Die" tells an archetypal story of hope, portraying a situation in which joy, freedom, integrity and truth all remain possible under the most challenging and limiting of circumstances.
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