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bettinablocksberg's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death of parent
Moderate: Vomit
honeyvoiced's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Medical content
Moderate: Suicide and Vomit
laurenjbb's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Cancer, Vomit, Violence, Terminal illness, Medical content, Gore, Excrement, Chronic illness, Death, and Alcohol
little_mo's review
5.0
Minor: Vomit
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
booksthatburn's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Child death, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Vomit
Minor: Death of parent and Forced institutionalization
ntvenessa's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Vomit
Minor: Death of parent
atamano's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Cancer, Medical content, and Grief
Moderate: Pregnancy and Suicide
Minor: Vomit
lexa's review against another edition
5.0
“At home in bed a few weeks before he died, I asked him, “Can you breathe okay with my head on your chest like this?” His answer was “It’s the only way I know how to breathe.”
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Grief and Suicide
Minor: Vomit and Car accident