Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.

Paulo Coelho
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When Veronika opened her eyes after a long interval, she was puzzled to find that she was alive, and that the room around her was filled with a fluorescent light. This causes her to marvel at how Heaven could have been so different from what she expected. When we were children we lived in a world where the sun shone every day, the weather was always sunny, and there were no rainy days. We knew that our world was not perfect, but we expected it to be the best place in the universe.

After all, there were no people here who would ever doubt that our world is the best place in the universe. So Veronika questions why Heaven is so different - why it uses fluorescent lights instead of sunbeams. She is astounded by how little she knows about Life after Death, and wonders if he has been wrong about what heaven looks like all this time.

Source: Veronika Decides To Die

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