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sabrinas's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Cancer, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Infertility, Excrement, Addiction, Suicide, Dementia, Car accident, and Blood
theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition
5.0
Paul’s words were very clinical at times but never cold or without emotion. This was his life’s story about his education, career, and personal life but most importantly it’s about how he continued to live even though he knew he was dying.
Lucy’s epilogue absolutely wrecked me.
Lucy: “I climbed into the last bed we’d share.”
Graphic: Cancer, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, and Medical content
Moderate: Infertility and Pregnancy
Minor: Vomit
charlotte_helen's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Cancer, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Infertility
flamingtashhh's review against another edition
2.0
In seriousness, I didn’t like the author at all. I cried at the end because of course death is terrible, but this was out of no love for him. He seemed to have a lot of self-importance that was tied to his work. I’m very grateful for medicine, but this kind of arrogance- that which declares medical treatment to be the greatest of all treatment, or at least doctors the best givers of care there are- is dangerous and absurd. It’s like if Jack from Lost wrote a book. I know plenty of people like this author, and none of them are happy and I wouldn’t take seriously any philosophical treatises of theirs, either.
And I’m not going to make a habit of picking apart the prose of a man writing through his last year, so I have nothing to say about the writing itself.
I actually liked the epilogue a lot, written by the author’s wife. She says there’s a lot he didn’t convey about himself and his values in the book, and honestly I really appreciated that. Her notes, and the pain and hurt in them, really gave another dimension to what would have otherwise been an uninteresting read.
Graphic: Gore, Infertility, Chronic illness, Death, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, Vomit, and Cancer
enbybooklove's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content
Moderate: Gore and Medical trauma
Minor: Pregnancy and Infertility