Yoshio Kitas hopelessness and lack of faith in his future as an ordinary and lonely company worker crystallizes into a decision to take his own life in what he calls execution by Death by Choice. His only remaining problem is how to spend both his remaining selfallocated seven days on earth and all his worldly money in this darkly comic exploration of the cult of suicide in Japan a country with one of the worlds highest rates of suicide. From fine dining with a former porn actress to insuring his life from pursuing his exgirlfriend to an entanglement with an assassin Yoshios last seven days on earth take on unexpected twists and turns as Shimada asks his readers what it means to have the freedom to end your own life and what becomes truly important when your days are numbered even if it is by free choice.