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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
19 reviews
clarathromycin's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide
Moderate: Dementia, Sexism, Cannibalism, Cultural appropriation, and Drug use
Minor: Sexual harassment
camsara99's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Chronic illness, and Gore
stevie's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Fatphobia, Excrement, Drug use, Death, Chronic illness, Child death, and Cancer
whatannikareads's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Cannibalism, Car accident, and Dementia
babayaga1989's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death
Moderate: Cancer, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, Vomit, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Excrement, and Chronic illness
zarazim's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Grief and Death
Moderate: Child death, Gore, and Fatphobia
Minor: Blood, Cannibalism, Car accident, Terminal illness, Suicide, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Drug abuse, Addiction, Cancer, and Death of parent
phdoyle's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Dementia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts
ainsleys's review against another edition
3.75
The whole book had this judgemental tone, if you disagreed or had a different relationship with death, you were in denial, or even a bad person. For example, a family who chose a less expensive internet option for their nine year old daughter was judged and berated as being bad parents who didn't care. I can imagine nothing worse than after loosing a child having to go to a funeral home and speak with a clearly judgemental stranger about how much you're willing to spend on the funeral arrangements. All while the judgemental stranger tries to sell you add ons or extras that if you don't get means you are a bad parent who doesn't care. No thank you, I would rather grieve and process the loss surrounded by loved ones. Plus she lacked any empathy that the family may have been forced into such arrangements because they were unable to afford a more expensive, face to face option.
I also felt like important issues were glossed over.
Overall this book still got a fairly high rating because of the interesting premise and subject matter, and the structure of being part memoir and part history examination.
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Dementia, and Terminal illness
noshelf_control's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Body horror, and Blood
Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness
Minor: Car accident, Drug use, and Alcoholism