Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

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

6 reviews

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

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

elizlizabeth's review

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.5

I was expecting a more analytical approach, given Caitlin's degree. This is more of a travel memoir spiced with facts about death beliefs, and the author's own opinions and takes on them. I enjoyed this format on her first book but for this one I felt bummed because it lended to poor interpretation of some of the rituals and their origins.
She's very respectful, and the humor was refreshing and enjoyable but definitely don't take this as a super academic source.

PS. (Just because I won't sleep otherwise) La Santa Muerte is NOT a feminist icon and/or LGTB+ icon in Mexico; trust me, I've lived here all my life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

emfass's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Terminal illness, Abortion, Blood, Miscarriage, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Abortion, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Racism, Mental illness, Genocide, Murder, and Terminal illness

katielaine_w's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gore, Medical content, and Miscarriage

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Cannibalism