Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

7 reviews

thewileyseven's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Extraordinary and essential. Spiritually, a beginning to the conversations of how acceptance and commitment theory can be applied to end-of-life care. I am positive I will be referring to this book regularly throughout the rest of my life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Suicide

isabellew6's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief and Dementia

Minor: Suicide

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Warning: do not listen to this audiobook while driving you will tear up 

I found this to be a seamless blend of Dr. Gawande’s personal and professional experiences with end of life care for the elderly and terminally ill. The kindness and compassion shown is moving and makes you really think about how you would want to spend the last months of your life and what really matters to you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Terminal illness

archer3's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Incredibly insightful and well-written. A thought-provoking work that everyone should read at least once. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Grief, Vomit, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts

gtrue21's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Abandonment, Ableism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Cancer, Death of parent, Dementia, Death, Confinement, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Forced institutionalization

momo916's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Anyone with an elder in their life right now probably knows how fraught the experience of navigating end of life can be. Gowande alternates between history and narrative to paint a picture of how we find ourselves making choices for ourselves and for our loved ones that result in the protraction of pain and suffering leading up to death. The book discusses the challenges everyone involved faces, including doctors, patients, and the family members who are often forced to make the final call. If I have any complaints, it’s that the prescription for this societal ill is, essentially, "talking it out," which seems to be the same thing we hear in response to most societal ills and which also has yet to really solve anything. I would have liked to hear more about the role, if any, that health insurance companies and fear of litigation play regarding the choices doctors make around testing and operating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide

katrinarose's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Minor: Blood, Excrement, and Suicide