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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
4 reviews
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
leweylibrary's review against another edition
4.75
Overall this book is a lot of morbid, informative fun! I feel like it's made me think about death and dying in an entirely different way--I already caught myself while watching the new Hunger Games prequel thinking about the dead bodies of the fallen tributes and how decomposed they must have been lol. It also connected some dots for me about past experiences concerning death. I had always thought I was uncomfortable with the first funeral I ever went to just because it was my first funeral, but I think I really was uncomfortable with the unnatural-ness of that funeral, how my great aunt didn't look like her anymore and she didn't look...dead enough to be dead.
I really want an updated version of this book--surely there are more "green" burial options now 10 years later? I also went ahead and put holds on all of the author's other books. Not only do I love the subject matter she focuses on, but I love her writing. She reminds me of Jenny Lawson with how deep and personal she can get but then also crack a weird, inappropriate joke in the next breath lol.
Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Mental illness and Dementia
Minor: Cancer, Addiction, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, and Chronic illness
ha1yan's review
5.0
Graphic: Death, Child death, Animal death, Miscarriage, Blood, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Dementia, Car accident, and Cancer
Minor: Misogyny and Gun violence
Detailed descriptions of corpses in various stages of decompositionnoshelf_control's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Body horror, and Blood
Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness
Minor: Car accident, Drug use, and Alcoholism