If I Stay by Gayle Forman

  „Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.
   I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.
  Stay, he says.
   Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?
   Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.
  If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make. „

On her death bed Mia has to make her hardest decision of her life, and it might be her last one. After a car crash her parents and brother dies, but she enters in coma. As a spirit, she is able to walk around the hospital. Her grandmother tells her that is her decision to stay or to go on the other side. But who would want to stay? Her family is dead and her body is very damaged. On the other hand, she lives for the music. Cello is her first passion, her way to express. And now the second, Adam (her boyfriend), Kat (her best friend) and the rest of the family. How can she be so cruel to leave them behind? This is the hardest decision anyone can face. What will she do?

                                          “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”