Have you ever found yourself confronting life and its many important decisions and find yourself living life due to your past decisions? Do you earnestly seek and need a change in your life's direction? As you come from your vicissitude of despair, suddenly enlightenment dawns upon you. Your pathway becomes clearer and you begin the process of change. As you continue, the change you seek does not appear; but then, you come to your final crossing point, that is, either to descend into darkness or embrace the light or face death. As you face your end, a miraculous savior appears and you realize, "Yes, I want to live." In A Soldier Dies to Live, Collins Herrington was such a man who "gave himself the bullet that he didn't get in the war and found himself lying horizontally across a vertical stream" - his final crossing point. You shall discover whether Collins dies in order to live.