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balfies's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Death, and Suicide
abisolutelyfabulous's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Suicide
afion's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Grief, Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Child death and Suicide
k04j1's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, and Cancer
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Medical trauma, Suicide, and Terminal illness
clarathromycin's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Medical content and Death
Minor: Suicide
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
belated's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Cancer, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Suicide
saphirabloom's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Cancer
Minor: Suicide
emily_p1's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Grief
Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt
morganperks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Suicide