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	Veronika Decides to Die - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Veronika Decides to Die (Portuguese Veronika decide morrer) is a novel by Paulo Coelho; it tells the story of 24 year old Veronika, who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself.
		Veronika Decides to Die has been adapted for theatre a number of times.
		Because of this new found freedom Veronika experiences all the things she never allowed herself to experience including hatred, love and even sexual awakening.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Veronika_Decides_to_Die (277 words)

	Veronika Decides to Die
		Veronika (Stephanie Stenta) is a pretty 24-year-old who works in a library and rents a room in a convent.
		When she decides to commit suicide, she chooses sleeping pills over the messier wrist slashing or jumping off a building--out of respect for the nuns and her parents.
		As it turns out, Veronika's ultimate expression of freedom is to pleasure herself in front of a mute schizophrenic, with whom she falls in love.
	www.sobtheatre.com /reviewsandphotos/veronikadecidestodie.htm (407 words)

	Veronika decides to die
		Veronika was playing the piano and Eduard was there, wishing to listen to her piano.
		Veronika committed a suicide because she felt that everything in her life werw same and she thought she would not be able to get anything by continuing to live, and she could not be satisfied with what was going on in the world.
		The story of the book "Veronika decides to die" is set in Slovenia which was established its independence from Yugoslavia after ten-day war in 1991.
	yayanaha.blogspot.com (2671 words)

	Sant Jordi Asociados - Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for.
		This story follows Veronika through these intense days as to her surprise, she finds herself drawn into the enclosed world of the local hospital she is staying in.
		On 22 January 1999, Senator Eduardo Suplicy read out passages from Veronika Decides to Die to the other senators at the Brazilian Congress, and managed to get approval for a law that they had been trying to get through for the last ten years, a law forbidding arbitrary admissions into mental institutions.
	www.santjordi-asociados.com /veronika.htm (502 words)

	DenverPost.com - Books & Authors
		His latest novel, "Veronika Decides to Die," examines craziness as a rationale for sanity and the impact that the knowledge of impending death has on the perceived meaning of life.
		Several of the inmates, aware of Veronika's tragedy, are drawn to the young woman as one would be pulled to a wounded bird.
		As Veronika learns that risk and disappointment are requisite parts of life's full fabric, her inmate companions come to realize that continued time in the asylum is merely a different form of suicide.
	extras.denverpost.com /books/die0604.htm (689 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Veronika Decides to Die: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		On the track of whatever it is that makes life worth living, Coelho plots Veronika's fate with infinite care, weaving the mystery of her decision to take her own life into the themes of national identity--Veronika is a citizen of Slovenia, "that strange country that no one seemed quite able to place"--and madness.
		Veronika decides to die, to me, was amazing because of the following: Suicide, regardless of whether one thinks it selfish or brave, is not done because someone wants to die, they simply want the pain to go away, and they do this BY CHOICE.
		Veronika however didn't succeed in her choice, yet she was told she was going to die whether she liked it or not.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0722540442 (1111 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE by Paulo Coelho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Veronika's disappointment at having survived sucide is palpable.
		Each of these patients reflects on Veronika's situation in his or her own flash of epiphany, exposing new desire and fresh vision for life that lies outside the asylum's walls.
		On hearing the news that she is soon to be released from Vilette, Zedka reflects, "Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/veronika_decides_to_die.asp (947 words)

	Sant Jordi Asociados - Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The school edition of Veronika Decides to Die is especially designed for teachers and students aged between 14 to 17.
		Veronika Decides to Die is a moving and uplifting tale centred on the days following the heroine's suicide attempt.
		As Veronika is forced to question the very concept of madness, she comes to realise that every second of existence is a choice that we all make between living and dying.
	www.santjordi-asociados.com /title_school.htm (571 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Veronika Decides to Die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Veronika, 24, works in a library in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and rents a room in a convent; she is an attractive woman with friends and family, but feelings of powerlessness and apathy tempt her to find "freedom" in an overdose of sleeping pills.
		Yet Veronika is not happy and one winter's morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in a local mental hospital.
		Veronika's five-day metamorphosis is in effect her rebirth into life.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060955775 (1203 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho - Paperback - 1ST PERENN
		The story follows Veronika through those intense days as, to her own surprise, she finds herself drawn into the enclosed world of the local hospital she is staying in.
		Veronika Decides To Die is not a story of death – au contraire, it is a story to celebrate life.
		Veronika Decides to Die is one of my favorite books, with something special in it that everybody discovers differently.
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	Veronika Decides... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Veronika Decides to Die serves as a starting point to which the performance keeps returning in random cycles, it melts the words into body, forgets about the novel and above all: it reaches beyond it.
		In the spirit of the leading question “who is crazy here?” the performance widens the role of Veronika over to the entire ensemble multiplying it at the same time.
		The scene widens up the frame set up in the starting point; it is not merely a trendy erasure of sexual limits, but it reaches into the identity of every single individual, into the process of establishment or even dance.
	www.gagikismailian.com /Veronika_decides_to_die.htm (545 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| VERONIKA DECIDES TO AUTHOR by Paulo Coelho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		While she was waiting for death, Veronika started reading about computer science, a subject in which she was not the least bit interested, but then that was in keeping with what she had done all her life, always looking for the easy option, for whatever was nearest at hand.
		Veronika left the four packs on her bedside table for a week, courting approaching death and saying good-bye-entirely unsentimentally-to what people called life.
		Having nothing more interesting to do, she decided to read the whole article, and she learned that the said computer game had been made in Slovenia-that strange country that no one seemed quite able to place, except the people who lived there-because it was a cheap source of labor.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/veronika_decides_to_die-excerpt.asp (922 words)

	This Is The Last… » Blog Archive » Veronika Decides to Die Review
		Veronika is told she only has a week to live, because of the damage she’s done to her heart.
		Veronika develops friendships with some of the other patients at the hospital.
		In Veronika, he really hammers the point home that to live life to the fullest, you do everything you want to do and you shouldn’t try to please other people.
	www.thisisthelast.com /2005/10/20/veronika-decides-to-die-review (1019 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Veronika Decides to Die: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Excerpted from Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
		Instead of crushing them and mixing the with water, she decided to take them one by one, because there is always a gap between intention and action, and she wanted to feel free to turn back half way.
		While she was waiting for her death, Veronika started reading about computer science, a subject in which she was not the least bit interested, but then that was in keeping with what she had done all her life, always looking for the easy option, for whatever was nearest to hand.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060955775 (1357 words)

	The Very Best Books : Veronika Decides to Die
		You see, like Veronika, we will always be more interested in making the best out of our lives if we had an appointment with the end of it.
		Veronika decides to kill herself and finds herself in a mental hospital.
		Veronika decides to live the week as she always wanted to live but couldn't when she was in the outer world.
	www.elise.com /store/0060196122/Veronika_Decides_to_Die.html (385 words)

	Amazon.com: Veronika Decides to Die: Books: Paulo Coelho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		When Veronika awakens in the purgatory of Villete, the country's famous lunatic asylum, she is told her suicide attempt weakened her heart and she has only days to live.
		In a sedative-induced haze, Veronika finds companionship in white-haired Mari, who suffers from panic attacks, and Eduard, an ambassador's son who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and she begins to question the definition of insanity.
		Veronika commits suicide and is shocked to awaken in Villete, a well known mental hospital, only to be told that while she was not successful in dying she has committed herself to death as her attempt at suicide has damaged her heart and she now has a few days left to live.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060955775?v=glance (1838 words)

	BookBlog: What Does It Mean to Be Crazy?
		I liked when Veronika's mom was speaking with him and it was obvious that she was thinking that this guy was, essentially, a fruitcake.
		Initially, Veronika wants to kill herself sooner in order to die on her own terms, so the lie could have had a very bad result.
		I would have liked to see what Veronika's life was like before she made the big decision, but I didn't, and it made me not care so much what happened to her.
	www.bookblog.net /bbarchives/000351.html (4159 words)

	Veronika decides to die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Veronika tries to kill herself, but she fails to.
		So she is put into a mental hospital with an irreversibly damaged heart, which the doctors tell her will stop beating within a week.
		Inside the lunatic asylum she gets to know some other patients who aren’t as mad as Veronika has supposed them to be.
	www.bg-stjohann.tsn.at /faecher/englisch/books/texte/veronika.htm (159 words)

	Life - Veronika decides to die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		From Zedka, who has a loving husband and children, and a beautiful house, Veronika learns that the thin line separating the mad from the sane is just a matter of mere figures - the majority decides that the minority behaves and thinks differently, and thus must be mad.
		With renewed passion for living and fervent urgency, Veronika bravely sets out to live her last days to the fullest in a poignant attempt to recompense for her earlier days as a living dead.
		The lessons from Veronika to willing learners is clear - you can be alive and yet very dead; every single day is a choice we make between living and dying.
	www.mediacorpsingapore.com /purplelips/life/articles/20001103_01.htm (473 words)

	Veronika Decide Morir, Paulo Coelho - HarperAcademic
		Veronika es una joven que tiene los mismos sueÑos y deseos que cualquier persona de su edad.
		Veronika, en su camino hacia la muerte, descubre que cada segundo de la existencia es una opciÓn que tomamos entre la alternativa de sequir adelante o de abandonar.
		Veronika experimenta placeres nuevos y halla un nuevo sentido a la vida, un sentido que le habÍa permanecido oculto hasta ahora, cuando ya es demasiado tarde para echarse atrÁs.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060011939 (154 words)

	Essay on "Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho and the song "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell relate to the theme ...
		Essay on "Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho and the song "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell relate to the theme "Chaging Perspectives"?
		The novel "Veronika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho and the song "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell are both examples of changing perspective.
		In Coelho's novel, the protagonist Veronika moves from feeling suicidal and disillusioned about life and love, believing that "her existence had no meaning" to seeing "each day a miracle" and falling passionately in love.
	www.dedicatedwriters.com /paper/Veronika_Decides_to_Die_by_Pa-141064.html (275 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Veronika Decides to Die at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The main character of the book is young Veronika who decides to take her own life.
		Veronika is a young girl who has it all, good looks, boyfriends, loving parents and a job but she still finds life empty.
		The four patients, Veronika, Zedka, Mari and Eduard all are interesting people and made me feel as though all my life I have known such people.
	www.epinions.com /content_139602988676 (721 words)

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		Veronika is a 23-year-old who seems to lead a very normal life.
		Veronika also lives in a world where she feels that she doesn’t belong.
		In Veronika Decides to Die, she wakes up after an overdose in a hospital and discovers that she only has a few days to live.
	www.geocities.com /xuglyxducklingx/decidestodie.html (126 words)

	WestAdams-Normandie.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Sons of Beckett Theatre Company presents VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE, Adapted and Directed by Erin McBride Africa.
		Based on the novel by Paulo Coelho, the Brazilian author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist." Opens at the 24th Street Theatre on May 16 and runs through June 1, 2003.
		Veronika decides to die is a drama about a young woman who decides to kill herself, but survives and finds herself in an asylum with a damaged heart.
	www.westadams-normandie.com /event.asp?ID=48 (127 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Veronika Decides to Die
		Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning she decides to die.
		There she is told that her heart is damaged and she has only a few days to live.
		The story follows Veronika through these intense days as to her surprise she finds herself experiencing feelings she has never really felt before.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books?whatfor=0722540442 (279 words)

	Veronika Decides To Die - Navigator - Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This is one of the challenges that Veronika must face in this extraordinary tale in which the boundaries of the sane and truly schizoid are blurred.
		Caught up in the arguably deranged studies of Dr Igor, Veronika is left convinced that she only has days left to live.
		Veronika Decides To Die is a thought-provoking novel that asks the reader to readdress the normality of the life that they lead.
	falmouthnavigator.collegepublisher.com /news/2002/06/12/Entertainment/Veronika.Decides.To.Die-249304.shtml (219 words)

	Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho - HarperAcademic
		Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job.
		Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal.
		Bold and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060955775 (199 words)

	FFWD Weekly - August 24th, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Veronika is smart, beautiful and 24 – and she has decided to kill herself.
		In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho (famous for The Alchemist) has written simply – terribly simply – about actual events.
		Such a potentially moving story as Veronika’s (self-discovery in the face of death) loses its power by explaining everything.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2000/0824/rev3.htm (238 words)

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		So, at 24, relatively happy but convinced life doesn't really get any better, she decides to die.
		But her rush to end it all changes when her doctor gives her some unexpected news: the pills she took have severely damaged her heart and she will likely die in a matter of days.
		Veronika affects them as strongly as they do her, and what she learns makes her question everything she believes, and truly live each day as if it were her last.
	www.drdrew.com /Article/print.asp?id=271&type=1 (308 words)

	Veronika Decides to Die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		I don't think I'm fond of all she did and I certainly would do things differently, but the point is that I would do things I might not consider doing if I thought I had more time to live.
		Veronika found out she was going to die and instead of imprisoning her, that knowledge set her free.
		People usually think that if someone knew they were going to die they would most likely be depressed and shut off from the rest of the world.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0060955775 (220 words)

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