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gothicaavrilraven's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, and Death
daniandsn's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
cmlalonde's review against another edition
5.0
Caitlin tackles dark topics unapologetically and with a sense of humour.
Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Death, and Child death
Moderate: Mental illness, Cancer, Miscarriage, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
rafacolog's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Death and Suicidal thoughts
scrummyb's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gore, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts
mikaylawood's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death
dragonterriers's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Miscarriage, and Child death
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
dragonwithapen's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Gore, Child death, Suicide, and Death
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Miscarriage
cadence99's review against another edition
2.5
•the discussion of death practices in various cultures
•the authors personal musings on how best to manage the image and processing of death
What I didn’t like:
•chapters feel a bit disjointed in their themes
•the repeated use of race as a descriptor for ONLY non-white people when it is irrelevant to the narrative of the story being told
•pretty gross anti-fat comments, primarily in one particular section where she talks about her coworker declaring that despite the medical examiners determination to the contrary, the person MUST have died of a heart attack from being so fat and “This is why you can’t be fat!”- in addition to describing in great detail how fat bodies smell worse, but then dismissing the coworkers comments as “just fact” (even though he is literally ignoring fact by assuming the mans cause of death is not the one determined by the examiners professional assessment)
• in the same scene as above, repeatedly bringing up how her coworkers continually mistakenly say the person is Mexican, despite him being Salvadoran
•irrelevant added story where a coworker says they should fire bomb the city of San Francisco because it is a “hell pit”
Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Car accident, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infertility, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Ableism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abortion, Blood, Dementia, Racism, Addiction, and Child death
rhi_reading's review against another edition
3.5
I awarded the book 3.5 because while the subject matter was interesting, the prose was a little over-written and quippy for my taste. The author’s breeziness around morbid topics is a key feature of the book that does benefit the text overall, but there are times when she would have benefited from drawing back a little and letting the actual topic at hand speak for itself instead of trying to cram in a pithy observation or half-hearted joke.
Graphic: Gore, Dementia, Medical trauma, Blood, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Miscarriage