The idea of ending one's life when things deteriorate is an international practice; Whenever depression becomes rooted in one's life or his/her financial situation lessens, or social standing becomes on the stake, then the option the end all that directly goes to killing thyself. I am not going to talk religiously about that, I wanna restrict the brief discussion about what Veronika did to her young soul.
If you still don't know who Veronika is, or wondering who she might be, here is the brief:
Veronika is a young (24ish) Slovenian lady, living in the small Slovenian capital Ljubljana. She decided to kill herself for reasons she didn't even know, but related her suicide attempt to a magazine article wondering where Slovenia is!! That looks awkward and weird, but thats what Paulo Coelho wanted it to be.
Thats Veronika, in her overdosed pill intake, she went in a coma for several days and was taken to a sanitary center to discover that her heart was affected and she still has few-counted days to live. through these days, she started recalling her act, regretting it sometimes, but once such a feeling floated over her mind, she pushed it back down, down til it never show again. She remained stubborn, that her death attempt has a cause and should be taken to the end.
What I liked through the story "Veronika Decides To Die" by Paulo Coelho besides the act of commiting suicide and its outcomes of self destruction and the validity of the forces triggering it is the idea of defining peole as mad or normal. In a story that Sedka (a supposedly mad woman in the sanitary) passed to Veronika, while the later was trying to find out if all people in the sanitary were mad, attracted my attention, and the story is as follows:
In a certain peiod and place, an evil magician was trying to take over a kingdom in order to control it. The relation between the king and his congregation was strong enough for the magician to ruin. The Magician decided to disolve a certain substance in the kingdom well, used to supply the people by drinking water, that will turn them mad in a way they will consider all their king's actions insane and they will revolt against him. Few days, people started to go mad, and they started to view all of their king's actions and practices insane. The king, used to drink froma seperate well, realised the greater opposition he was facing and he decided to leave the crown. His wife didnt accept that, and though for what reason that may have driven all those people bad. She decided to drink from the public's well. After that, the king got mad too and then his people started to realize his efficiancy and positive input and decided to keep him as king.
The idea there is that the definition of bein mad or not is not a standard; simply, what is normal for French people is insane for arabs for example; and what normal for Indians is madness for Japanese...etc. And that was Veronika's mission in that story to find.
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