Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

119 reviews

kayelcr's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

lilawsahar's review against another edition

dark funny informative lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I learned so much about the business of dying. I’ll need to create a death plan so my family knows not to use embalming fluids. I wanna decompose the most environment friendly way possible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

scarlettjaynem's review against another edition

hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

butlerebecca's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Transphobia

nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Blood, Excrement, and Dementia

haleyhorrorshow's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

"Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Violence, Vomit, and Car accident

rabbithalliwell's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective

4.5

Content warnings only due to the fact that the whole book is about death and our perception of it. Caitlin approaches all topics with honesty and care.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

jlblumenfeld's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

kamrynkoble's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.5

What a fascinating read! I listened to the audio, read by the author. While this book does detail/explain much of the process after death (especially cremation), the author’s musings on how we view death as a culture was even more interesting to me. She has a fresh, dark sense of humor without being offensive/insensitive. 

Heavy warnings for death (of a parent and infant death specifically, too). I didn’t find the details disturbing or disgusting (then again, I’ve seen a lot of horrible photos of dead bodies from my 911 dispatching days, so maybe I’m not the best reference).

All-in-all an interesting, engaging read that flew by. I’d never engaged with this author before but now I’m excited to check out her videos as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Death of parent

maxthefish's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt