Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

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

31 reviews

fionag's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

I love how informative Doughty’s books are. This was a great listen as she is a fantastic narrator. Doughty is always respectful and never criticises or mocks any customs or grieving loved ones. I would never have known about many of these death practices if not for this book. It was nice to see how far things have come since it was published, since recomposition is now legalised. I completely agree with Doughty’s stance that family should be more involved in death care and allowed to grieve fearlessly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Animal death

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.

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, and Child death

avialia's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Wow, I mean I enjoy a book about funerals and death this much. I am just suprised that the author can make me this intrested in a topic I really had no prior intrest in.
I started reading this only caus the cover loked intresting. Turns out it is about how diffrent cultroes approced death and their funeral and after death rituals.

Did I have any intrest to begin? No.
Do I now want to become a motrician? Also yes.

There was a few MINOR flaws that makes this book not 100% for me. So it lands on a 
4.5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Animal death

gretchenplz's review against another edition

5.0

As someone still processing her first death, this book touched me in a way I didn't expect. Caitlin Doughty is a really special human, and I'm incredibly thankful that she has made it her life's mission to normalize death.

If anyone asks, I want my body cremated on an open-air pyre when it's my time to go. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Grief

Moderate: Child death and Suicide

Minor: Religious bigotry

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

mfrisk's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This is a good read to learn more about mourning and death rituals of other cultures. I thought it was a valuable read but I just didn’t get as much from it as much as her other book I’ve previously read (will my cat eat my eyeballs?). It had some heartfelt moments don’t get me wrong but it felt like it could have said a bit more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Abortion, Medical content, and Medical trauma

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

glitterdeww's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This is excellent. I think just about anyone could find this book both incredibly interesting and incredibly helpful. 

On its face, From Here to Eternity is a thorough examination of a multitude of death practices found around the globe, and it succeeds in that in beautiful detail. But even more so, this is a thoughtful study on the grieving process. As Caitlin Doughty illustrates the stark realities of death, the reader can sense her deep curiosity and compassion surrounding her trade. There was also a lot to this book that was surprisingly funny (because in the face of death, if we're not laughing were crying... So why not try for an even split.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, and Terminal illness