Veronika Decides to Die is a 2009 American psychological drama film directed by Emily Young from a screenplay by Roberta Hanley and Larry Gross, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Paulo Coelho.

[4] It stars Sarah Michelle Gellar in the title role,[5] with Jonathan Tucker, Florencia Lozano, Melissa Leo, David Thewlis, and Erika Christensen appearing as supporting characters.

She wakes inside an exclusive and expensive mental asylum only to learn that the overdose has left her prone to an aneurysm that will kill her in a matter of weeks.

Veronika does not know that her aneurysm is the invention of her unorthodox psychiatrist Dr. Blake, who is testing his theory that convincing her she has only weeks to live will restore her to health and cure her desire to commit suicide.

[12] The film was released in Poland and Sweden in October 2009,[13][14] in South Korea on November 19, 2009,[15] in Lithuania on April 23, 2010, in Argentina on July 1, 2010, and in Mexico and Germany in September 2010.