Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

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

14 reviews

morbidanatomy's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

constellation_library's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

This one was quite a good read. I'm not usually one for nonfiction, but the macabre nature of this drew me in. I do think that there was not enough emotion invested in dealing with the dead on the part of the narrator, but that is personal taste. I recognize that keeping an emotional wall up is likely essential to being in the death business. I learned so much and found the author's voice engaging, despite the sometimes difficult subject matter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

I saw many of my concerns and thoughts about death reflected and answered in this book, and I was given lots more to ponder. Caitlin has a way of writing these things nonchalantly and straight to the facts, while mantaining an engaging and eerie, reflective vibe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Trafficking