Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

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

54 reviews

plasticpansy's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

sabrinaleaf's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.0

Interesting topic to read about, especially as someone who plans on working in the death industry (coroner to be exact)
The author skillfully delivers fun and humorist stories that deal with such a taboo subject: death.  I love how the author provides criticisms of the industry and actually talks about solutions and changes she wants to make to help solve what she thinks is a problem. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Death

butlerebecca's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Transphobia

mnstam's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Blood

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

haleyhorrorshow's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

"Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Violence, Vomit, and Car accident

rabbithalliwell's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective

4.5

Content warnings only due to the fact that the whole book is about death and our perception of it. Caitlin approaches all topics with honesty and care.

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Content Warnings

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

nialystic's review

dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Suicide, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia and Suicidal thoughts

frankieclc's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

gothicaavrilraven's review

dark funny informative fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

cadence99's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

What I liked:
•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”

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Content Warnings

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