Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

2 reviews

asacco9642's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Genocide, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Body horror, Child death, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Car accident, Chronic illness, Dementia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Blood, Gun violence, Suicide, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, War, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

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