Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

35 reviews

feelingpeachygreen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.75

Caitlin writes beautifully - with poise, humility, a dry humour and ultimately, a goal for an upheaval of deathcare. 

This was really, really interesting and if I wasn't going through a loss, I wouldn't have read it. But that's part of the issue, I think - we avoid thinking and feeling when it comes to death.

I enjoyed the illustrations in this book and helped me see what Caitlin saw. I enjoyed the variety of death rituals explored.  

I knocked down 0.25 stars because I just wish it was longer and explored more cultures!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Death of parent

theabee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Gore, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Medical content, and Death of parent

maxthefish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abortion, Death, Grief, and Child death

caddythegnome's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Death of parent, Medical content, Child death, Suicide, Grief, Excrement, Death, Cancer, Blood, and Abortion

burnt_milk's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Does this count as a travel memoir for the StoryGraph genre challenge? sort of maybe probably not, but I'm shoving it in there anyway. 
This is a beautiful collection of the author's recounts of her travels, constantly questioning why we have this separation and fear of our dead. It was a short but interesting overview of how a few different cultures remember, celebrate, and care for their community members in death practices. The way we (speaking from Australia) treat death is so sanitised, this book feels hopeful in challenging some of our psychological blocks surrounding it.
I for one, can't wait to disintegrate into human compost. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Cannibalism, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Miscarriage, and Suicide

krytykesa's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

3.0

I feel it was a bad idea to read book that makes you think about death on the one year anniversary of the full scale war in my country 😬

But in general it rather entertaining and interesting. Great choice for a quick weekend reading. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Abortion and Miscarriage

consultantames's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, Infertility, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Suicide

amplawrence's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Ableism, Death, Miscarriage, Child death, Animal death, and Cannibalism

namielle's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

tipsyspacedragon's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief and Gore

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, and Suicide