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cacoethas's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Vomit
emgovan's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma
Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy
bettinablocksberg's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Death of parent
Moderate: Vomit
honeyvoiced's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Medical content
Moderate: Suicide and Vomit
laurenjbb's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
little_mo's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Vomit
flamingtashhh's review against another edition
2.0
In seriousness, I didn’t like the author at all. I cried at the end because of course death is terrible, but this was out of no love for him. He seemed to have a lot of self-importance that was tied to his work. I’m very grateful for medicine, but this kind of arrogance- that which declares medical treatment to be the greatest of all treatment, or at least doctors the best givers of care there are- is dangerous and absurd. It’s like if Jack from Lost wrote a book. I know plenty of people like this author, and none of them are happy and I wouldn’t take seriously any philosophical treatises of theirs, either.
And I’m not going to make a habit of picking apart the prose of a man writing through his last year, so I have nothing to say about the writing itself.
I actually liked the epilogue a lot, written by the author’s wife. She says there’s a lot he didn’t convey about himself and his values in the book, and honestly I really appreciated that. Her notes, and the pain and hurt in them, really gave another dimension to what would have otherwise been an uninteresting read.
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
booksthatburn's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Gore, Blood, and Vomit
Minor: Forced institutionalization and Death of parent
ntvenessa's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
atamano's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Grief
Moderate: Suicide and Pregnancy
Minor: Vomit