Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

63 reviews

bookedfortheweekend25's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

bookmuva's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug use, Miscarriage, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

abbiecondie's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

scarlettjaynem's review against another edition

hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

epellicci's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt

schlizzzy's review

informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

mleigh11's review

challenging dark emotional informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

maxthefish's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

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

nikenacs's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

I picked this up not thinking much of it, both because I'd had a recent death in my family and because my local library was offering the e-book. And man, I'm so happy I read this. It took me a while to get into it, but when I did, I was INTO IT.

The ins and outs of the crematorium are interesting enough, but the true strength of this book is in its reflections on our society's attitude towards death. Absolutely 10/10 on that front. As someone who has had little to no contact with death in my personal life, this gave me a lot to think about. 

Very US-centric, which is not a bad thing, but instead made me very curious to research how the funeral industry works in Germany, and Western Europe in general. 

A tad superficial at times, oftentimes a chapter ended just when I felt like we were really getting into it. I appreciate that it combined more light-hearted personal memoir elements with philosophy and history as well as politics, but it could have been a tad more of the latter for my taste. 

But all in all, I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this opened my eyes on how we treat both our dead and our dying.  Will be recommending, will be checking out more of Doughty's work. 

(And on a personal note, I knew I was right when I wanted to set up my testament and funeral wishes when I was in elementary school! Take that, parents.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Violence, and Cannibalism

Minor: Addiction, Miscarriage, and Abortion