Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments by Hadley Vlahos

37 reviews

fanchera's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Suicide, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Eating disorder and Emotional abuse

annaeslane's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

aespaldon24's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Really enjoyed this and think it will stay with me for quite some time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Suicide, Terminal illness, Dementia, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Eating disorder

princessblueyes's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Eating disorder and Dementia

Minor: Abortion

juanat77's review

dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

abitterknitter's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

So many amazing stories

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

book_fish's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Hadley shares her story interwoven with a handful of her patients as a hospice nurse. It's a beautiful collection of life lessons while navigating end of life. The interweave of time around those two threads didn't always work for me, but I could have listened to this book for double the amount of time. A 'keep me up past my bedtime' kind of book. I'll definitely be passing it along to other friends who have walked with a loved one through hospice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Gore, Blood, Dementia, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia and Pregnancy

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Like many readers of The In-Between, I first encountered Hadley Vlahos on social media (Instagram, since I don't use TikTok). Her compassion and insight about end-of-life care really endeared her to me and made me want to read her book. And it is such a book worth reading! Vlahos does a fantastic job at stringing together narratives within and between the essays in this collection. I appreciate that she starts from the beginning and introduces the readers to some of the more surprising aspects of death and dying with the same lack of knowledge she had at first. Also, I respect her willingness to go against official rules for the sake of humanity. 

An unfortunate side-effect of Vlahos' abilities as a pretty good writer, though, is that certain things that were undoubtedly shocking to her at the time are well-foreshadowed in her hindsighted recollections. In particular, there is one point in the book where I was like "Oh man... that's going to happen..." and then it did, and then I kind of struggled through everyone's shock and guilt because I was anticipating it. She knows how to structure a narrative... perhaps she is even too good at it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, and Classism

Minor: Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

-Graphic depictions of deterioration due to Alzheimer's & dementia.

abijohnston66's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Blood

espressoreader's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book brings death to life.  I have spent the last 4 hours and 53 minutes crying.  It is beautiful to see the love that Nurse Hadley has for her patients.  I wish more medical staff was like her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Classism