Not an easy read, by any means, but full of observations about death and grief with which I identified. "When someone you love dies, you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets. Her death brings to light her unique quality, she grows as vast as the world that her absence annihilates for her and whose whole existence was caused by her being there... But since you never do all you might for anyone, not even within the arguable limits that you have set yourself, you have plenty of room left for self-reproach."

heartbreaking :/

Okay first of all, for entire book I was thinking “uh, I wouldn’t want to fight to hard. Just let me die.”
If I have a daughter like Poupette, I’d whoop her ass for making me live so long, endure so much pain.

But what actually bothered me, is it even legal, to lie to the patient and tell them you are going for an x-ray, while you are gonna perform a surgery? Bc that sounded very bad, and if someone decides he doesn’t want a surgery, just dont. Why they lied to her? That was disgusting. Even if one of her daughters had legal right to decide (what happens when elderly person is decided to not be capable of making decisions for themselves), then still, for what?

I rounded it up, but I’d say my rating is 3.5/5

Hay libros que, aunque son bellos, no dejan de ser tristes y dolorosos. Así es Una muerte muy dulce.
Me gustaban las partes donde Simone exponía la relación con su madre, me resonaban. Aunque sé quién es Simone, no quiero entrar en un análisis intelectual del libro, porque lo único en lo que podía pensar durante su lectura era en mi mamá. Varios días después y aún pienso en lo duro que fue.
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"La inmortalidad, no importa si la imaginamos celestial o terrenal, es incapaz de consolarnos de la muerte cuando se ama tanto la vida."

A wise little book about a very big topic.

oh this one’s hard, gripping.