«No existe muerte natural: nada de lo que sucede al hombre es natural puesto que su sola presencia cuestiona al mundo. Todos los hombres son mortales, pero para todos los hombres la muerte es un accidente y, aun si la conoce y la acepta, es una violencia indebida.»

It altered my brain with the ideas of death from Beauvoir's perspective and her thought about the meaning of death. It's a quite paradox when we talk about the meaning of death, we also talk about the meaning of life. Unfortunately, the writing was a bit difficult and some chapters were too complex for me to understand.
It triggered me when she wrote about her memories with her mom. How she looked at her mom when she was a kid and then in her adulthood. I could relate her. They had a complicated relationship. However, she still loved her mother.
Since the theme of this novel was too emotional, it took me three months to finish it. I thought I'll be finishing it in a day. Well, I was wrong. It wasn't an easy read.

the content itself is very moving but also it doesn’t get as impactful till the end. or maybe i’m just heartless. idk

Simone you have left me completely and utterly speechless. So raw and beautiful, yet so horrifying in the way that she describes the impending doom of her mother’s death. Her thoughts and emotions trickle down page by page as she discusses the torment her mother is going through while simultaneously showing her will to live. It’s so agonizing reading the words “I want to live!” as you wait to see how her fate will play out. Has so much to do with how in the grand scheme of it all, we will all have that last hour to live, its just a matter of how big your love towards life had been. “Today I could almost be her mother and the grandmother of that sad-eyed girl. I am so sorry for them - for me because I am so young and I understand nothing; for her because her future is closed and she has never understood anything.”
(no book has ever made me cry this much)