Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation Into the Death Trade by Hayley Campbell

4 reviews

kendralyris's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Child death, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Medical content, and Terminal illness

grimmauxillatrix's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Everyone knows about funeral directors, some people know about embalmers, but how many people know about pathologist technologists or bereavement midwives? A very good coverage of the overlooked people and positions in the death industry. 

The author reads the audiobook, and the best parts are where she lets her reading get emotional. Otherwise, her voice is flat, like she's reading a paper in front of her class. She doesn't have a bad voice or an annoying nasality or anything, it just gets a little boring sometimes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Excrement, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Death, Medical content, Drug abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Genocide, Car accident, Chronic illness, Infertility, Blood, and Drug use

Minor: Animal death

THIS BOOK DISCUSSES DEATH, DEAD BODIES AND THE AFTERMATH OF DEATH IN EXPLICIT DETAIL. THE SUBJECT IS HEAVY AND TREATED WITH APPROPRIATE GRAVITY AND RESPECT, BUT IT IS VERY DETAILED. IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU CAN HANDLE LISTENING TO AN UPSETTING STORY ABOUT A DEAD BABY, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK

marareading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

3.5

3.5 rounded up. I definitely enjoyed this. I am a novice to this genre and topic so this might be skewed based on that alone. Her perspective is what made this book fascinating for me. She paid attention to the people in the fields of study and their reactions and lives, not just the processes (however also amazingly fascinating). <Spoiler> I especially loved at the end when she talked about how every person in every profession was separated and usually took issue with a profession in another step of the process. <Spoiler> Overall this is interesting and enjoyable information for me. I learned a lot. If you enjoy this topic this would be a book to gain not just information, but human perspectives from all sides of the industry deal with death. 

There are VERY heavy triggers in this book, including a chapter focused heavily on child/infant death and the last portion of the book repeating reactions to said chapter. Please read with awareness and self care 💜

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Cancer, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Child death, Classism, Murder, Terminal illness, Gun violence, and Infertility

library_goth's review against another edition

dark emotional informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage and Infertility

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Blood, Death of parent, and Excrement