"Veronika Decides to Die" is a novel by Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian writer with many inspiring works such as The Pilgrimage and The Alchemist. This novel begins in the city of Ljubljana; Capital of Slovenia, its protagonist is Veronika, a young and beautiful 24-year-old girl whose monotony of life led to suicide. Veronika was sure that at her age she had achieved everything she wanted. He believed that the only thing that could be missing in life were the bad things in life. Veronika decided the best way to do this; it was by taking four packs of sleeping pills which after 5 minutes made her lose consciousness. Veronika woke up in Villete, a mental hospital founded in 1991, in a former barracks abandoned due to maintenance costs. This Villete became a sanatorium where the truly mentally ill from other clinics were transferred together with people accused of insanity or made to die of insanity. Once awake in the hospital after a long time, Veronika woke up with Doctor Igor, director of the institute and young intern. It was this young man who made her aware of her condition, informing her that they had managed to perform a gastric lavage, which prevented her death, but the excessive dose of sleeping pills caused irreversible damage to her heart and he told her that she will die in less than a day. week. Even afterwards Veronika was sure of the decision she had made but did not want to wait for death to arrive and it was then that she met Zedka, a woman who was finishing her "treatment" and who had entered Villete due to depression; Veronika, asked for help to get more pills to reach her goal and that's when Zedka, talked about "Brotherhood", a group of completely sane people who might be out of Villete......half of paper ..... .te.I would recommend this book to everyone because it is interesting and made me reflect on who I am and what I am doing with my life. It made me think about all the risks I didn't take because I was afraid of what other people thought. It made me realize that sometimes I have to be selfish with what I want. It gave me the pleasure of thinking back to all the things I hadn't said because I thought it wasn't worth it. Sometimes it is difficult to understand all these things without being close to death. This book teaches me how I can be happy and be crazy because sometimes what we consider truly crazy might be the most normal thing for others. He thought I wasn't like everyone else if not different because that's the only thing that can make us happy. Works Cited Coehlo, Paulo. Veronika decides to die. HarperCollins Publishing Inc, 1998.