Veronika Decides to Die

VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE Veronika was a young girl living in Ljubljana, in Slovenia. She was bored of her life and she decided to kill herself, she attempted to commit suicide. She was living in a room she rent for herself. On a November day, she ordered the room meticulously; she brushed her teeth and lay down. She decided to take sleeping pills in overdose. After she took most pills, she began to wait for the loss of consciousness and finally, her aim, death she waited for. While she was waiting

Introduction The novel tells the story of Veronika, a beautiful young woman from Slovenia. Veronika had everything, money, a job, a family, boyfriends, etc. However, she wasn’t happy and she always felt that her life was empty of purpose and that future would be worse, that’s why she decides to suicide by taking many sleeping pills. Instead of dying, she awakes in “Villete”, a mental hospital in Ljubljana. Nurses tell her she has only one week to live because the pills had caused irreversible

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