Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

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

12 reviews

reb_knits'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

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

nikenacs's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

I picked this up not thinking much of it, both because I'd had a recent death in my family and because my local library was offering the e-book. And man, I'm so happy I read this. It took me a while to get into it, but when I did, I was INTO IT.

The ins and outs of the crematorium are interesting enough, but the true strength of this book is in its reflections on our society's attitude towards death. Absolutely 10/10 on that front. As someone who has had little to no contact with death in my personal life, this gave me a lot to think about. 

Very US-centric, which is not a bad thing, but instead made me very curious to research how the funeral industry works in Germany, and Western Europe in general. 

A tad superficial at times, oftentimes a chapter ended just when I felt like we were really getting into it. I appreciate that it combined more light-hearted personal memoir elements with philosophy and history as well as politics, but it could have been a tad more of the latter for my taste. 

But all in all, I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this opened my eyes on how we treat both our dead and our dying.  Will be recommending, will be checking out more of Doughty's work. 

(And on a personal note, I knew I was right when I wanted to set up my testament and funeral wishes when I was in elementary school! Take that, parents.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Violence, and Cannibalism

Minor: Addiction, Miscarriage, and Abortion

vanesst's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Blood, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Car accident

pettypierrot's review against another edition

challenging funny informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Alcohol

asiaasiaja's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Dementia, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Fatphobia, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

_cooper_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ssarahbbeth's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug use, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, and Dementia

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Colonisation

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Classism

lailams's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I didn't think I'd ever describe a book about funerals as "funny" - let alone enjoy it - yet here we are. Caitlin Doughty masterfully crafted the reflective journey of a lifetime (death time?) in my eyes. I picked it up thinking 'huh, I suppose I don't know much about the funeral industry, I'm sure information on it would come in handy' and put it down a changed person, a semi-revolutonist ready to call every person I know and talk about our shamed, silent culture around death. I've talked about death with my mom and sister quite a bit - we've all known forever that we wanted natural burials - but the layers that this book will add to our conversations (and my personal conversations with myself) about our deaths is frankly irreplaceable. I'm thankful to have read this book. I would like to say I've come out of this book comfortable with my mortality, but I don't think that's the case. It'll take me a lot longer to undo the cultural brainwashing that has told me to fear death for so long. But I'm ready to start on the journey. Oddly enough, this book about death has made me excited to live and learn. It's been so long since a book has genuinely, existentially impacted me like this - it's an easy 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gore and Vomit