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angelanoelle's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Grief, Death, Child death, and Body horror
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Addiction
Minor: Car accident and Dementia
cruelaz's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Dementia, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content
taleofabibliophile's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Body horror, Child death, Suicide, Car accident, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Gore
Moderate: Mental illness, Dementia, and Pregnancy
Minor: Drug use, Racism, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Cursing, Cancer, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Sexism
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4.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide
Moderate: Dementia, Sexism, Cannibalism, Cultural appropriation, and Drug use
Minor: Sexual harassment
starsreside's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Death, and Suicide
Moderate: Racism, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Sexism
Minor: Miscarriage, Animal death, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Dementia
wrensreadingroom's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Dementia, and Medical content
magic's review against another edition
4.5
It was really good and I highly recommend all of Caitlin Doughty’s books and work online. It’s a great way to ease yourself into confronting your own mortality. It also is a good reminder to think about and talk to your loved ones about what you want done with your body when you die.
Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Terminal illness, and Grief
Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Dementia, Miscarriage, Body horror, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts
abookperson's review against another edition
4.0
My favourite quotes:
'The Bay's current fulfilled feminist Camille Paglia's lament: "Human beings are not nature's favourites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force."'
'Bodies cremated in full, heads donated to science, babies, and some woman's amputated leg all come out looking the same in the end. Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. "For you are dust, and to dust you shall return." As an adult human, your dust is the same as my dust, four to seven pounds of greyish ash and bone.'
'In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but also a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.'
'Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said, "The meaning of life is that it ends." Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create. Philosophers have proclaimed this for thousands of years just as vehemently as we insist upon ignoring it generation after generation. Isaac was getting his PhD, exploring the boundaries of science, making music because of the inspiration death provided. If he lived forever, chances are he would be rendered boring, listless, and unmotivated, robbed of life's richness by dull routine. The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. He didn't seem to realise the fire beneath his ass was mortality-the very thing he was attempting to defeat.'
'At the moment I was alive with blood coursing through my veins, floating above the putrefaction below, many potential tomorrows on my mind. Yes, my projects could lie fragmented and unfinished after my death. Unable to choose how I would die physically, I could only choose how I would die mentally. Whether my mortality caught me at twenty-eight or ninety-three, I made the choice to die content, slipped into the nothingness, my atoms becoming the very fog that cloaked the trees. The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.'
I WILL READ THIS BOOK AGAIN.
Moderate: Body horror, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Grief, and Gore
Minor: Dementia and Terminal illness
kb_sherman's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Cancer, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail
whatannikareads's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Cannibalism, Car accident, and Dementia