Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Onaturligt död: Liv och död - en rättsläkares memoarer by Richard Shepherd

15 reviews

ymer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

aliceloyallaleon's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was absolutely fascinating. From the high profile cases to those that were completely unknown, Shepherd manages to find the perfect balance between clinical language and narrative prose, from initial examination through to court and conviction in some cases. He writes really well; the post-mortems are scientific enough to keep from being hard to stomach, but not so detached that you can't also feel empathy for the victims, their families and those involved in the deaths.

Some of the bureaucracy becomes so frustrating, and the toll it takes on Shepherd's personal life is awful. But he writes with such brilliant clarity and it's one of those rare non-fictions that reads enough like a novel I couldn't put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent

heini's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Hate crime

Minor: Miscarriage, Vomit, and Car accident

Extremely detailed descriptions of (many) children's death, bodies and murders of children.

sophieduncan's review against another edition

dark emotional informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Police brutality, and Mass/school shootings

Terrorism - content warning