Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

23 reviews

chelseacrystal's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative fast-paced

4.75

SUCH a fun (and funny) exploration of a topic this dark. I had a blast, even as a more squeamish reader. Rush Hour 1 was a scary movie in my eyes and I was still able to handle this book. The descriptions can get very…graphic but I managed. 

Caitlin absolutely knocked it out of the park with this one. I’ll definitely check out her other works. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

a_novel_craving's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Blood, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Suicide, Abortion, Animal death, Child death, Death, and Medical content

taliafranks's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

4.25

In general the different cultural attitudes are described thoughtfully and always with empathy towards the deceased and their loved ones. The topic is a rough one that people who are distressed by death and all that comes with it might be uncomfortable with but this book is nevertheless potentially helpful for someone experiencing and contextualising their grief and/or how they themself would like their body to be treated after death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Death, Animal death, Blood, Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, Abortion, and Child death

Moderate: Classism, Gore, Cancer, Infertility, and Cannibalism

In general the book talks about death in depth including different cultural beliefs and actions regarding the process. There is one description of animal sacrifice that is fairly explicit, and an intense recounting of circumstances to terminating a wanted pregnancy due to terminal illness and risk of miscarriage/early infant death, not only in regards to emotions and procedures but also the reactions of anti-choice protesters.

mikaylawood's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Miscarriage

seamoonstone's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Miscarriage

theabee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Gore, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Medical content, and Death of parent

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

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

mollywill's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Death