Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

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

47 reviews

u_0's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I'm at a loss to describe how important this book is. It should be required reading for all humans. Caitlin, I love you : )

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

charlottedow's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Not for the faint of heart (or stomach) but an incredible exploration of the death industry in America and the concept of death positivity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

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

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

briar_nettleroot's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Grief, Car accident, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

oliverreeds's review

dark funny slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

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

specificwonderland's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

3.75

Liked the writing and narration. The topics stayed somewhat surface level. The end turned into a textbook or philosophical exercise. It was like the first 3/4 was saying, "Ewwww isn't this wild?" and the last 1/4 was about the future of the funeral industry and how we do/should/could view mortality. It was ok. I also added a few trigger warnings to larger bodies. I thought the scene felt a little (more accurately "moderately") judgey/predatory. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

_cooper_'s review

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

samlikesbooks's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse and Dementia