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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
9 reviews
breadbummer's review against another edition
4.5
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
alicroz34's review
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, and Grief
Moderate: Addiction, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Dementia, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism
savyelizabeth's review
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Racism and Classism
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
briar_nettleroot's review against another edition
5.0
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
_cooper_'s review
5.0
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
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 JKRstarsreside's review against another edition
3.75
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
morbidanatomy's review
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
Minor: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexual harassment