Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Para Toda a Eternidade: conhecendo o mundo de mãos dadas com a morte by Caitlin Doughty

37 reviews

savhardt's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Death, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Abortion

pickashelf's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief

chelseyas's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief

booksandmagic's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Body horror, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia

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

sunnybugz's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Body horror

siobhanward's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

 I'll admit that death rites was an area I was particularly fond of studying in school, so I thought I'd like this one going in. I was shocked by how great it was - Doughty handled the topic of death with dignity and respect, while still keeping it interesting. I loved the variety of different cultures she included, and especially enjoyed how she connected the practices to relevant cultural things or historical periods. I also thought that using illustrations to give readers a visual idea of what she was talking about without including photos of graves or of the dead was clever and certainly helped me get a better idea of some of the rituals.

One tiny thing was that when she was in Belize I was hoping she'd talk about why the graves are aboveground - when I visited there it was something I'd noticed and always wondered about, but the section was pretty short and she never explained it. Ah well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief

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