Veronika Decides to Die

I'm half through with Paulo Coehlo's Veronika Decides to Die.  I've been glued to my sit upon reading the first few pages of it.  I am reading it not because "Sheggz decides to Die, too" but to understand the longing of the soul of people with suicidal tendencies.  What was missing in their lives and what liberation do these people want themselves to be freed of?  What was gradually destroyed at the course of struggling to live.

Let me share with you a few lines from the book according to Veronika.

She believed herself to be completely normal.  Two very simple reasons lay behind her decision to die, and she was sure that, where she to leave a note explaining many people would agree with her.

The first reason:  Everything in her life was the same and, once her youth was gone, it would be downhill all the way, with old age beginning to leave irreversible marks, the onset of illness, the departure of friends.  She would gain nothing by continuing to live; indeed, the likelihood of suffering would only increase.

The second reason was more philosophical:  Veronika read the newspapers, watched TV, and she was aware of what was going on in the world.  Everything was wrong, and she had no way of putting things right — that gave her a sense of complete powerlessness.

- Excerpt from the book-

Do you want to die out of the natural order of things?