Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

33 reviews

gblurie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Death of parent

francescaastraea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book is the sort of thing someone a bit goth (me) gets you as a gift and you say "thanks!" politely and privately think, "this is just another Goth Book I will never read" and then you read it and you wish you had never doubted your gift giver (me) who knew you would appreciate a brief tour of different places’ death rituals AND appreciate the excuse to have an honest and open conversation about death with your friends and loved ones, which leaves you feeling better about this mortality thing we all grapple with and rarely discuss. You are welcome.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Child 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.

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

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

Another gem from Caitlin Doughty 🙌 of course I wish there had been more from more places around the world, but like she does have a business to run too, she can't actually go all around the world learning and writing about funeral practices and attitudes towards death. As always, I learned a lot and thought a lot about the way I think about death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Body horror, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

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

leefox's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Drug abuse

feelingpeachygreen's review

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.75

Caitlin writes beautifully - with poise, humility, a dry humour and ultimately, a goal for an upheaval of deathcare. 

This was really, really interesting and if I wasn't going through a loss, I wouldn't have read it. But that's part of the issue, I think - we avoid thinking and feeling when it comes to death.

I enjoyed the illustrations in this book and helped me see what Caitlin saw. I enjoyed the variety of death rituals explored.  

I knocked down 0.25 stars because I just wish it was longer and explored more cultures!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Death of parent

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