“Decides” is the key word in the title of this book: Coelho weaves his storytelling around the major, life-altering decisions that the central characters-the protagonist and those with whom she interacts in the mental hospital-must ponder when they learn of her imminent death. 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. 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.
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