Veronika Decides to DieVeronika Decides to DieVERONIKA DECIDES TO DIEVeronika 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 for the death to come, she got impatient and impatient for the death and she got difficulties in passing time and she looked for something to spend time. In the room, she found a magazine and started to take look at the magazine. Within the magazine, a question attracted his attention and the question was that “Where is Slovenia?” After reading the article in the magazine, she decided to leave a note behind her saying that she committed suicide in order to make Slovenia become more and more known to the people in the world. Meanwhile, she recalled her full past life, her parents, work and like these.
To Veronika, her attempt ion to commit suicide was derived from two fundamental reasons for him. First reason was that she became tired of the monotonous of life; she thought that everything was similar in the youth, childhood. She thought that the people around one always left that people when she was old and the loneliness began. With the advent of older ages, people began to suffer more and more from the life and it was senseless to lead such a life. The second reason was that she was not pleased with the ongoing appearance of the world. There were wars in the world. By observing the situation of the world through TV, newspapers and other media vehicles, she could not find any meaning in that life.
She was thinking of the existence of the God and she found herself went into deeper subject matters. Veronika saw death as a symbol of freedom that she could not try to make use of during the remaining life. Veronika could not pass minutes and she tried to spend time by observing the people who were passing on the street. She saw a man passing around the street and she began to think that man seemed the last person whom Veronika saw. Veronika thought of that man to desire Veronika and she tried to take joy of being desirable by a man. Additionally, the Bolivian musicians attracted her attention and it would be a good death accompanied by Bolivian street musician. After a great deal of time, the pills started to show their effects and Veronika came to feel ill. She told herself that the pills firstly would take her to a deep and long sleep. And then she fell into sleep. When she opened her eyes, she thought that she was in heaven but she heard a woman’s words about her she began to get angry with herself because she could not manage to.
She found herself in Vilette. Vilette was a mental hospital in Ljubljana. It was founded in 1991 with the independence of the country, Slovenia, from Yugoslavia. With the collapse of Yugoslavia, most of the countries started to gain their independence but not without wars. There were wars between Yugoslavia,and Croatia, Bosnia. The economic and business authorities in Slovenia began to get worried about the spread of war into their lands. When she woke up, she asked questions to the doctors and she just wanted to learn if she would die or not and if so how long she would live further. While she was listening to the doctors, she thought that they were taking great joy from telling bad news to the people. On her own, she tried to attribute that behaviour of the people to the view that they would find themselves lucky and happy for that they would not suffer from pain or loss although these people might seem worried about the health of others. The doctors told that she had just countable days of a week that made Veronika happy.
In the room she was staying, there were other patients or mad people however Veronika could not understand that she was in a mental hospital and she thought that she was staying at a prison. When she was given the reply that she was in a mental hospital, she showed an objection to the nurse who replied her question by saying that she was not mad. The nurse began to laugh at Veronika’s words and told her that all the people in that hospital thought that they were not mad too. Firstly, being mad did not associate anything for Veronika. Meanwhile, a woman asked her that whether she knew the meaning of mad or not. She asked for the identity of that woman. That woman was Zedka and then Veronika started to talk to Zedka. Zedka, who was also a patient in hospital, started to tell a story to Veronika. The story was following;there was a wizard and that wizard wished to eliminate a kingdom by placing poison into the well of the kingdom from which the people of the kingdom had their
In reality, the wizard was a fellow in the same ward and he was told by the wizard that Veronika had a condition and was a potential victim of her disease. When she was asked some details of the wizard, Veronika had no answer. When she was told what happened to the wizard, she showed this to her husband, who said that he was dead and he did not want anyone seeing him and did not know what was happening. When she asked the question about what happened, Veronika showed that she said that she wanted to bring things back to reality, then the husband asked whether or not he was going to return her body to the forest for the funeral. Veronika says that she didn’t believe him but that the rest of the villagers in the forest felt the same and they all wanted to bury the wizard and that they were going to let her back live in the forest alone. He went to a man in the forest and called him Veronika. With that, the wizard showed a woman in a wheelchair who was waiting for them.
During the funeral, she went into the room and saw Veronika lying face down on the ground, crying and with her head in her hands. Veronika didn’t know if she cried because she said she didn’t feel that much. Afterwards, Veronika had the men go for medical attention, but she didn’t get to feel so fine. She said that she didn’t feel okay at all and wondered if someone was there. Veronika said that something changed and after that, the day after, a beautiful and happy Veronika came into the room. She had all the medicines and asked Veronika to get the medicine and help her to heal herself.
By the time of being taken to an asylum, many of the people that were there were dying for no obvious reason. One man of particular concern was a woman named Veronika, as seen by the last image in the gallery. She looked at the man and said that Veronika had a disease and was waiting for her husband. Veronika responded by telling him that she feared that her husband had an infected brother. The man said that there was a man in there and he was waiting for the medicine. That man, one of the two of them, asked Veronika what she thought and she told him that her husband had an infected brother. Veronika said that she was just afraid that she would be taken to her grave. The two men left and the room was silent when each one of them came in and said that they had died, that there was nothing to hide.
In addition to her condition, she had epilepsy and had been diagnosed with it. Although it had caused it, her epilepsy was not as severe as before. Due to that she wanted to go to the hospital, but instead was told that her husband needed medical attention because he had been ill after he lost his mind and that his condition was very serious. In the end, she was treated when she went with him to the room there and saw no signs of weakness.
While taking medicines, veronika experienced a dream, but she did not feel it. She could not even see it and couldn’t think straight. When she finally came to the hospital the next day, after she received the first infusion of medicine, Veronika had hallucinations, with her eye not fully functioning. The following night her husband came back and said that he had a seizure in the other room. If she stayed with him, his wife’s dream would not give her more time. However, before leaving, she told him that she needed more medicine. There were other visions regarding Veronika’s condition, and there were also visions saying things like, she is