Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

42 reviews

fynn_jls's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Moderate: Suicide

parasolcrafter's review

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

i needed a good chunk of time to let this book sit with me because it was soooo impactful, and much more than i had prepared myself for. its just...living in its rawest state; learning to know a man in his own words as he comes to terms with his life in the past, present, but not future as hes very quickly dying...its a lot to read about but Paul Kalanithi had such a way with words and for that many people will always be grateful to him and he'll always be remembered. i wish the best to his family 💖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Suicide

puterica's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Banyak istilah kedokteran yang kurang bisa dipahami, tapi secara keseluruhan narasi dari Paul udah enak bgt utk diikuti. Buku ini ngingetin aku sm banyak hal yg seharusnya aku prioritasin. And im bawlinh my eyes out reading the epilogue😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Cancer

Moderate: Suicide

rebeccareads31's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

lmneal87's review

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Suicide

sabrinas's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility, Excrement, Addiction, Suicide, Dementia, Car accident, and Blood

majakrmer's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death of parent, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Cancer, Terminal illness, Death, and Medical content

vienna_books's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

2.5

I always find it hard to rate memoirs. This is somebody’s real story and should be treated respectfully. It has very high ratings and many people seem to love this book.
That said: it was not for me. I mostly read fiction but I did enjoy memoirs like „Educated“ and „In Order to Live“.

First and foremost:
I would NOT recommend „when breath becomes air“ to anybody who is currently struggling with mental health, especially depression!!!!

I liked the writing and I feel like the author was a great person worth knowing. This book is probably great for people who work in medicine and want to gain the perspective of a patient.

There were chapters focusing on Pauls life before cancer which I sensed were more targeted to people he knew in person. Again I don‘t want to disrespect anybody but these chapters nearly made me stop reading. 

Then we got a few chapters about his career and work. I found these interesting but I‘m the kind of person that covers her eyes in medical dramas when they show humans being cut open by doctors. There was a lot of graphic descriptions of medical conditions that had nothing to do with his cancer. I was also not prepared to read about the death of new born twins. Again, not the books fault but it was very depressing to read. 

After I finished reading „When Breath becomes Air“ I asked myself: Why did I read this? I don‘t really feel like I‘ve learned something new about cancer. I had expected to maybe take life lessons from it when it comes to the topic of  death but I don‘t know… I maybe just could not relate to Paul very well? I feel like I would have appreciated the book much more if I had known the author personally. 

I landed on 2.5 stars because to me that‘s the average between 0 and 5. If this was fiction I would have rated it lower. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Child death

Minor: Suicide

mel_s_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, and Cancer

Minor: Suicide and Pregnancy

kilonshele's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide and Child death