Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

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

112 reviews

bookish_purrsuits's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

vanamo's review against another edition

dark funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: 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

cooper_reads_books's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

___christina___'s review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Death, Excrement, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Descriptions and discussions of tough topics are written empathicly and humorously.

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

lizardflake's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Cannibalism and Suicidal thoughts

maddiearthur's review against another edition

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

printingbetweenthepages's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

I stumbled upon this book as a recommended read from Booktube, although I can’t remember who it was that recommended it, I’m glad that they did! Morbid, but incredibly interesting and educational with a level of intrigue that made this a fast-listen (I chose the audiobook version to read). This first-hand account of experiences working in a mortuary was eye opening and done in a way that respected the dead and the processes that happen once one is deceased. Society, myself included, often skirts around the issue of death and what happens to us after death (not in a religious sense, in a physical sense). Personally, I feel that it’s the unknown that bothers us, and this book answers a lot of those unknowns. I really enjoyed learning about the historical events that took place over time that impacted how the dead where “handled” and how history and the changing beliefs over time have changed the mortuary business. Probably not the book for all, but those with a scientific background or interest in how things work, while being able to handle the subject matter, will find this book an enjoyable peek into the mysteries of death and mortuaries…and I have to say after learning about the topic it’s a lot less terrifying! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, Chronic illness, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death of parent, and Grief