There have been a few books that I have read recently that depict what death might be like as your spirit leaves your body. The book, Everlost, by Neil Shusterman is certainly one of those books (Posted on Mr. Kohl's Literacy Corner). These books place their characters in a purgatory like setting where the characters are either waiting for their time to cross over, deciding whether to continue on with the afterlife, or return to their lives. In the book, If I Stay, by Gayle Forman, Mia is in a serious accident and now has to decide if going back to a life that will certainly contain severe mental and physical suffering is what she wants, or should she go on to an uncertain future where there are are no clues as to what lies beyond death.Gayle Forman has followed up If I Stay with a sequel titled, Where She Went. Interestingly, the story is told through the point of view of Adam, Mia's boyfriend from the previous story. Without giving away book one, Adam is one of the people left in Mia's life that makes leaving so difficult.
What if you get to choose? The afterlife is a mystery that has been the subject of many fiction book plots, religions, and science theories. What do you think it might be like when we die? Do we have a choice what happens?
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