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Reviews tagging 'Grief'
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
74 reviews
finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition
5.0
Themes
• Death positivity and death plans
• The American/western Death industry
• Confronting the fear of death
• Death practices
My Thoughts:
Baby's (23yo's) first memior!
I was already familiar with Caitlin prior to reading this. Both through her YouTube videos and having read her other two novels.
Favourite Quote:
Graphic: Grief, Death, and Child death
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide
Minor: Medical content, Blood, Miscarriage, and Death of parent
harrimyers's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Blood, Cancer, Terminal illness, Child death, and Dementia
Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Fatphobia
Minor: Cultural appropriation and Colonisation
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
alex_bousquet's review against another edition
2.75
Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, and Grief
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
ehamlett's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Medical content, and Death
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Blood, Animal death, and Dementia
frankieclc's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Grief, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Suicide, Body horror, and Gore
cmlalonde's review against another edition
5.0
Caitlin tackles dark topics unapologetically and with a sense of humour.
Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Death, and Child death
Moderate: Mental illness, Cancer, Miscarriage, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
apoppyinthewind's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Car accident, Death, Medical content, Suicide, and Dementia
eviethebookworm's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Gore, Death, and Grief
just_jeffrey0597's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Cancer, Cannibalism, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Child death, Dementia, Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse