Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

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

14 reviews

lookingformybookmark's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal death, Miscarriage, Excrement, Dementia, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

breadbummer's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual content

cadence99's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

What I liked:
•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”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

raisinreads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Maybe I just went in w high expectations or maybe I have already thought about death so much that this didn't have many new ideas for me.. I expected more depth than I got but that is partly on me. it is a well-written book but it just didn't deliver as much as I had been expecting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Pregnancy

indieandajean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I'm a massive fan of Caitlin Doughty and the work she is doing through the Order of the Good Death to change the American perspective of death and mourning from our modern moment of hiding and sanitizing death towards a more traditional mourning ritual of home funerals and natural primarily non-embalmed means of body disposal. I'd read her other two books, but had yet to read this one because I was concerned that as her debut publication, it wouldn't contain her strong narrative voice and nonchalance about the details of death.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that this was untrue and that this book was not only extremely well written, but was the key to understanding why Caitlin's death fascination began and how she used her experiences to start the order. This book is a fantastic piece of memoir, and it is also a great place for the uninitiated to start when learning more about the good death and the ways in which we can begin to challenge the funeral industry as it exists today. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

spookily's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Violence, Dementia, War, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia, Sexism, Excrement, Car accident, Pregnancy, 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

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Cannibalism, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness, Dementia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

CW: mention of JKR

starsreside's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, and Medical content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Pregnancy

nila's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy