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sassyshark's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, and Blood
Moderate: Pregnancy and Gore
booksthatburn's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Child death, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Vomit
Minor: Death of parent and Forced institutionalization
katemariea514's review
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Cancer, and Death
waybeyondblue's review
3.5
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Blood and Medical trauma
emily_p1's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Grief
Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt
elly29's review
2.0
It's a sad thing when anyone gets cancer, and sadder still when it's someone so young and after so much work to become a neurosurgeon. I imagine working on this was cathartic, and there is a bittersweetness in this book's half-finished nature: it is unfinished because cancer cat Kalanithi's life short.
Se seemed to have spent a lot of time on his perfectionism; of course, cancer is messy and violently rips any chance at perfection, asymptotic though it may be, away. Some of his ideas were good: the relationship as vector for meaning, and that science is nothing without meaning superimposed onto it by human intellect. I liked the part about Christian religion offering mercy over justice, always, and redemption as a way to make up for falling short of being the best versions of ourselves that we can be. His final thoughts to his daughter were profoundly sweet and tender, and thank goodness for the Epilogue, which clarified much and wrapped the book up neatly.
I skipped his inclusion of details about his time in the anatomy laboratory, and some of the graphic details about surgeries.
I think Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is a better read.
Minor: Blood
mscalls's review
3.0
Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Suicide and Car accident