Twenty-four-year-old Veronika wakes up in a mental hospital after a failed suicide attempt and learns that the pills she took damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live, and in the week that follows, Veronika learns some important lessons about life and love.
Sixteen-year-old Tessa, dying of leukemia, decides to spend her last days "really living" and devises a checklist of all the things she would like to experience before her death, beginning with sex.
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos.".
Sixteen-year-old Kara doesn't know why she was born with cystic fibrosis. When an anonymous benefactor promises to grant a single wish with no strings attacted, Kara can't help but wonder if miracles might really happen.
Having been diagnosed as a terminal cancer patient, Hazel is running out of time. When she meets Augustus Waters at the Cancer Kid Support Group, her life takes an unexpected turn.
In the days leading up to the partition of India in 1947, thirteen-year-old Bilal devises an elaborate scheme to keep his dying father from hearing the news about the country's division.
