Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

32 reviews

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Animal death

marcellaandherbooks's review

informative lighthearted medium-paced

2.5

Is it fair to give a poor review of a book when it does exactly what it says on the cover, but I was just hoping for it to give me more?
 
 When I picked up From here to eternity : Travelling the world to find the good death, I was hoping to find out more about different traditions and practices surrounding death from all over the world. I wanted to know where these traditions came from, how they came to be. What role they played in the grieving process and how they compared to Western death culture. 
 But the book is more about the what and the how, rather then the why. 
 I think the word travelling in the subtitle is a good indicator. It feels like Doughty is a tourist, witnessing different death rituals, describing what she sees and who she meets. She spends a lot of time on the technical details, where I would rather have learned about the psychological and cultural aspects.
 Rather then reading how an ox got slaughtered as a sacrifice, I would have loved to know why, and where the practise came from. 
 I did enjoy the epilogue where she talks about the implications the sanitization of practices around death, especially in the U.S. has on the grief process and how they could learn from other countries, I felt like that had the tone I was looking for in the rest of the book. 
 But as a whole unfortunately, this book wasn't for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Abortion, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Racism, Mental illness, Genocide, Murder, and Terminal illness

vigil's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

the idea of death in the western world, america especially, is a very daunting one. caitlin does an excellent job of showing that it doesn't need to be. while i personally wish she had gone into deeper detail (especially of the indonesian death rituals) it doesn't take away from the book that she didn't. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content and Religious bigotry

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

maggotea's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Grief

fwee's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal death, and Death

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging informative lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Informative, humane and amusing (dark humor-ish) at points; preachy with a tinge of exoticism at others. I still have thanatophobia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Abortion

amelew's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Animal death

avadore's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Not sure what people think about my death obsession, but it sure is a joy to read such nuanced, gentle, insightful works that give time to such a shunned subject. Eighth house activities to share with loved ones is a strong theme and I am very here for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

typedtruths's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Animal death