Paula asked Gayle Forman:

Do you really believe that people get to choose if they want to stay or not qhen they are in comma (like Mia)?

Gayle Forman I don't think that everyone has a choice because, as Mia herself points out, no one would ever succumb to a disease or injury. That said, I have heard so many stories of dying people hanging on to see a child get married or graduate. Or there's my own grandfather, who waited for everyone to leave the room to die. It makes me wonder if there is a tiny consciousness operating.

And wonder, questions…those are the seeds of novels.

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