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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
8 reviews
alicroz34's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content, Child death, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Blood, Addiction, Miscarriage, Dementia, Cannibalism, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Racial slurs, Addiction, Sexism, Racism, and Misogyny
savyelizabeth's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Death
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Drug abuse
Minor: Classism and Racism
cadence99's review against another edition
2.5
•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”
Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Car accident, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infertility, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Ableism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abortion, Blood, Dementia, Racism, Addiction, and Child death
briar_nettleroot's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Child death, Medical content, and Suicide
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Miscarriage
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Grief, Car accident, and Racism
cooper_reads_books's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicide, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Child death
Moderate: Terminal illness, Sexism, Medical content, Racism, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and Vomit
taleofabibliophile's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Body horror, Child death, Suicide, Car accident, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Gore
Moderate: Mental illness, Dementia, and Pregnancy
Minor: Drug use, Racism, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Cursing, Cancer, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Sexism
CW: mention of JKRstarsreside's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Death, and Suicide
Moderate: Racism, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Sexism
Minor: Miscarriage, Animal death, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Dementia
morbidanatomy's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Child death, Medical content, Fatphobia, Suicide, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief
Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Racism