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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
19 reviews
nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition
4.0
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
rabbithalliwell's review
4.5
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
just_jeffrey0597's review
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, and Death of parent
cadence99's review
2.5
•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”
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
indieandajean's review against another edition
5.0
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.
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
5.0
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
ssarahbbeth's review
4.25
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
maddiearthur's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Dementia, and Car accident
taleofabibliophile's review against another edition
5.0
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 JKR12dejamoo's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide
Yes there are icky descriptions of dead bodies but it's not really done for shock value, just to tell stories and make observations. The tone is also very light so mostly it doesn't feel too agh