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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
6 reviews
harrimyers's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident
Minor: Cultural appropriation and Colonisation
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
maethereader's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Blood, and Grief
Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Cancer, Gun violence, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Car accident
erica_reads_things's review
4.0
There was a pretty abrupt and random chapter with some, in my opinion, unnecessary fatphobic themes, but other than that I really enjoyed the process of reading this book and thinking about death myself.
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, and Death of parent
Moderate: Drug use, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts
mermaidsherbet's review against another edition
3.0
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
ha1yan's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Dementia, and Car accident
Minor: Gun violence and Misogyny
Detailed descriptions of corpses in various stages of decomposition