Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

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

12 reviews

ehamlett's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Blood, Animal death, and Dementia

u_0's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I'm at a loss to describe how important this book is. It should be required reading for all humans. Caitlin, I love you : )

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

indieandajean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I'm a massive fan of Caitlin Doughty and the work she is doing through the Order of the Good Death to change the American perspective of death and mourning from our modern moment of hiding and sanitizing death towards a more traditional mourning ritual of home funerals and natural primarily non-embalmed means of body disposal. I'd read her other two books, but had yet to read this one because I was concerned that as her debut publication, it wouldn't contain her strong narrative voice and nonchalance about the details of death.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that this was untrue and that this book was not only extremely well written, but was the key to understanding why Caitlin's death fascination began and how she used her experiences to start the order. This book is a fantastic piece of memoir, and it is also a great place for the uninitiated to start when learning more about the good death and the ways in which we can begin to challenge the funeral industry as it exists today. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical trauma, Death of parent, Child death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Addiction, Car accident, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Murder, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Chronic illness, and Cancer

Minor: Animal death

vanesst's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Terminal illness, Animal death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

blep's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

In my personal opinion, it was not as deep as I thought it was going to be and that was a bit of a disappointment. Interesting as a resource on funeral operations but lacking on the emotional reflection side. Just my opinion, might re-read and update

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death and Cancer

grunbean's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Animal death

starsreside's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

labeanorita's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Child death, and Death of parent

sammantha's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, War, Fatphobia, Car accident, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Cannibalism, Suicide, Child death, Colonisation, Drug use, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Death, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

rtaire's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I love memoirs, but I was pleasantly surprised by how the author interweaves the science, history, and culture of death with her personal experiences. Her writing resonates with my own anxieties about death and points me in a direction of what I might want, where to research, and potentially how to ask for it. Now I want a "good death" and hopefully will learn more in her next book (and/or her YouTube channel).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Cannibalism, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Car accident, Child death, and Death

Minor: Addiction and Drug use