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A review by veeples
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This has been one of my favorite reads all year, hands down. I’ve followed Caitlin Doughty on her YouTube channel for years and I’m so glad I got around to listening to this book. Caitlin’s humor shines through that adds a bit of lightness to such heavy material, but not inappropriately so. I enjoyed seeing her journey in her relationship to death and her reflections on others’ who appear in the book and their own relationship with death. I’ve always had an appreciation for what she stands for in regards to agency in dying and opening up a conversation about death, and reading this has only deepened that.
Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cancer, Dementia, Cannibalism, Car accident, and Abortion