Death As A Meaningful Choice Reflected In Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You (2012): An Existentialist Perspective

This research aims to determine the death as a meaningful choice in Me Before You novel (2012) using existentialist perspective that was done by setting by three goals: the first to identify the causes of the main character to choose to die, the second to describe the choice of death depicted in the novel, and the last to reveal why did the author address the idea in the novel. The type of this research is qualitative research. In this method, the researcher used two types of data namely primer and secondary data. The primary data is quotation of Me Before You written by Jojo Moyes. The secondary data was taken by biography of the author, article, books, journal, internet and other sources to support the analysis. The first result of this research to identify the causes of the main character to choose to die divided into two internal causes namely being abnormal, being pain, being temperamental and being depressed and the external causes namely being dependent and being ashamed. The second result is how the choice depicted in the novel through characters, setting, events, and style. The last, the reason of the author addressing the idea in the novel because the author inspired by the news about a young man who being a quadriplegia sufferer from the radio, two relatives who need treatment for 24 hours, and doing research about quadriplegia syndrome