Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

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

39 reviews

ju_harue's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

aquakirst's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Blood, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical trauma, Classism, Addiction, Gore, and Dementia

Minor: Excrement

spookily's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Dementia, Drug use, Cancer, Classism, Violence, War, and Addiction

Minor: Sexism, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Car accident, and Excrement

erinsampson91's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Terminal illness, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Dementia

oliverreeds's review against another edition

dark funny slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Dementia, Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

hails_reads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

This book made me truly reconsider the way I view death and the way I think about life and it’s cyclical experience. The highly intelligent (and funny) author wrote with a heartwarming and empathetic voice and I genuinely learned a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Dementia and Abandonment

asiaasiaja's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Car accident, Medical content, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Grief, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Excrement, Classism, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Vomit, Miscarriage, Cannibalism, Sexism, and Dementia

Minor: Fatphobia, Cursing, Colonisation, Body shaming, Xenophobia, and Cancer

ssarahbbeth's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Drug use, Terminal illness, Cursing, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

samlikesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Excrement, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Blood, Child death, Suicide, Grief, and Terminal illness

Minor: Drug abuse and Dementia

maddiearthur's review

dark funny hopeful inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Dementia, and Car accident