If I Stay gets its name from the out of body experience and dilemma a girl's conscious is confronting.  Mia Hall is the main character within this story.  She is experiencing her first relationship with a boy, she is contemplating what she wants to do with the rest of her life, she loves her family, and she gets in a horrible car crash that kills everyone in her immediate family except her.  Mia finds herself outside of her body watching everything that occurs after the car accident.  The novel is all about Mia's journey to decide whether or not she will decide to stay and live on Earth or to venture into the realm of the afterlife.  Most adults would depict young adults as being immature, but Mia does not seem to portray that attribute.  First of all, the decision she has to make is one that any immature person would not be able to handle if placed up on them.  The manner in which she goes about this decision is by looking at it from all angles.  She looks back on her relationships with her friends and her boyfriend, she recounts her memories with her family, and she looks to the future.  Overall, Mia is looking at the long-term, big picture aspect of her decision, something that because of the lack of frontal lobe development young adults are suppose to struggle with.  The thought process of Mia portrays not an immature conscious, but one that is growing as the story continues along.  Young adults see themselves as growing individuals.