Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

18 reviews

amandat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Grief, Medical trauma, Gore, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide, War, and Violence

Not for everyone, but I found it absolutely fascinating!

miss_magenta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Murder, and Cancer

burdasnest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

 I was really hoping this book would be a good companion to Stiff by Mary Roach, but the only similarity was the journalistic approach. It was certainly informative, but the author interjected her own experiences and opinions amidst the information more than I would have personally preferred. To me, that just padded the book, and I would have preferred it to be more informative and shorter in that case. The point that we owe gratitude and grace to the unseen death workers is well taken, but I could have been spared the philosophy of the author on how she processes death. It is not humorous, and it's certainly not for anyone squeamish. But at the same time, the author manages to make gore and guts boring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Body horror, Gore, Excrement, Grief, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Genocide, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Car accident, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, and Chronic illness

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

md_65roses's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Suicide and Miscarriage

cadence99's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

While I had my moments of doubt with this book, mostly due to my concerns of it having the potential to be exploitative towards highly emotional topic, I think it was an overall really worthwhile read. There were some chapters I really didn’t love (the crime scene cleaner particularly), but there were more that I appreciated then those I didn’t. It’s an interesting exploration of the way some cope with the inevitability of death 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Murder

Minor: Fatphobia

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Child death, Death, Medical content, Cancer, Murder, Grief, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide, War, Violence, and Pregnancy

tea_at_mole_end's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child death, Death, and Blood

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Suicide, Cancer, Addiction, Car accident, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness