Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy

3 reviews

sas_ram's review against another edition

dark funny informative mysterious slow-paced

4.5

This is a hard one. I absolutely enjoyed reading it. It's macabre and funny but at some point it started to drag on a lot. It didn't make it any less interesting but it still impacted the reading experience. 
Some of the stories were less interesting than others but overall it was a really good selection.
I learned a lot more or less usefull stuff while reading. For example I didn't know how popular skulls are and how many bodies get misplaced, go missing or are involved in more adventures than during their lifetime. 
It makes you grateful for a peaceful and proper burial, how ever that may look for the individual. 
Maybe others would actually love to have such an adventurous afterlife, sounds memoriable for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

robyn_fenix's review

dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Drug use, Suicide, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

odrib's review against another edition

hopeful informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Alcohol