When Veronika wakes up, she's in a national asylum best-known for lunatics-gone-wild stories published in the press. As her body is rejecting her, the nurse in her accompaniment shared a personal story that she thought might relate to her, but in truth, it doesn't, because that nurse doesn't understand in the first place the underlying reasons why she, Veronika, decided to commit suicide - comparing her "stupid" actions to her aunt's.

Everybody has different reasons for their set of actions. A decision is a will. No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the absence of meaning in their lives, Veronika thought. Even if the nurse is trying to help, she took the wrong step to make a snap judgment of Veronika and her decision to die, judging her specifically as a patient in the asylum, but not wholly as a person.

As a nurse, the job is to take responsibility for one's healthcare, and for people who are merely thinking that they're just doing their job in this life, it's sad for a character like Veronika to think about her - What is the point of doing their job if they haven't have the human interest? What if she had shown some respect to the decision another soul different from hers has made? What if she lose her job unexpectedly one day, say, a layoff due to the poor economy, and going on with life but still holding on to her judgment about suicides, never gaining a different perspective? What will she do then, after losing her job? Does she have an ulterior will? Even if suicide is a taboo, a "rule" by many traditions, Veronika decided to heck with it.

"Rules are mostly made to be broken, and are too often for the lazy to hide behind." Sir Douglas MacArthur

Without further ado, laying motionless yet mindfully restless, Veronika felt powerless, much like Saluna. As a journalist, her mind is always thinking about the whirlwinds of stories spreading all over the press, as translated into the flashy headlines of our modern communications systems. There are so much tragedies going about, leading to too much information overload, and she felt that, out of the billions of people still living and breathing in this world, someone has to do something.

Within the last century our world population has also risen up dramatically to 7 billion, according to a special report featured in the January 2011 issue of National Geographic. As third world countries like India and China, the world's most populous countries, also rose to power comparable to the economic equivalent of United States, natural resources left to use for energy, such as oil, food, and cleanwater are put into question. "Increased global consumption may stress the planet more than population growth does as income rise," and so I thought, even if you have a job that provides you with all the income and access to these necessities in life for you to continue working, that is, "doing your job", but coming with the cost of losing Earth as our global home in the process - it's like a long-overdue suicide for all. If we don't have a home, where will we cease to exist? Which happens if the rate of GDP growth remains as the main determinant for the population's appetite...

Let's say that Saluna is not alone. Millions of helpless people who are trying to protect the Earth or delay end-of-the-world situations as we know it are turning themselves into entrepreneurs everyday, creating a series of success stories to impress the press, and even further stories for the press to stamp committers of suicide as "lunatics". There is no doubt that entrepreneurs practice the general rule of breaking the rules. They've set their hearts and souls and made a purpose in their lives, doing something actually relevant for a global cause, and therefore can rest in peace once they die, leaving a legacy in the footprints they've left behind when alive. However, if the people they serve continue to grow exponentially, and there is no other systematic way to serve our wills other than mass management, then the world would continue hungering for GDP growth, intangible asset dependent, getting lost in liquidation, not seeing life through a more careful eye.

Let alone with the pair of physical eyes. Are we blinded by the press? What if, just what if, the nurse who just tranquilized Veronika back into a dreamless, unconscious state, had someone saying to her that the "rule", the part where she "is just doing her job", was to die? Like someone turning her course in life abruptly by saying "Go and die!" and she really, stupidly jumped off the rooftop without further questions and "just doing her job"?

We always have a choice to read between the lines, and that is why Saluna took the redpill. To be continued...