The best-selling memoir "I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki" was written by South Korean novelist Baek Se-hee, who passed away at the age of 35. She continues to give back to society after her death by donating her organs, even though her book has sold over a million copies worldwide.According to the Korea Organ Donation Agency, which The Guardian reported, Baek has saved five lives by donating her heart, lungs, liver, and both kidneys.

The organs were retrieved in the National Health Insurance Service Ilsan hospital in Gyeonggi Province, north of Seoul—the same hospital where she was born—according to a different article in The Telegraph India. According to the article, the agency confirmed that Baek was pronounced brain dead on October 16.

Childhood and work
Baek, who was born in 1990, spent five years working in a publishing business after completing his studies in creative writing at university.

She had a history of dysthymia treatment and had lived with her rescue dog, Jaram, according to her biography published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

For ten years, she had received mental health treatment for dysthymia, a mild but persistent type of depression. After she posted treatment notes on a blog and got encouraging comments, the idea for her memoir came to her.

I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, Baek's memoir, was released by Bloomsbury in Korea in 2018 and the UK in 2022. It is based on her discussions with her doctor over dysthymia, a chronic type of depression.
These exchanges are interspersed throughout the book with brief essays. Last year, the UK saw the publication of the sequel, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki.

The memoir has sold over a million copies globally and about 600,000 copies in Korea. It is titled after Baek's favourite dish, tteokbokki, which is a Korean dish of rice cakes in a spicy sauce. More than twenty-five nations have published it.