Sarah Michelle Gellar is to play a suicidal woman in a hardhitting new indie movie. The fun-loving former Buffy The Vampire Slayer star has signed on to take the lead in new film "Veronika Decides To Die."

In the film, her character attempts suicide only to live and discover the damage she did to her heart has left her days away from death. The fatal diagnosis gives her character a lease of life.

Kate Bosworth was originally attached to star in the film.

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