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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
62 reviews
breadbummer's review
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Colonisation, Pregnancy, Sexism, Addiction, Miscarriage, Racism, Fatphobia, Car accident, and Misogyny
Minor: Sexual content
angorarabbit's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Suicide, Dementia, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Blood, and Death
Moderate: Car accident
Graphic descriptions of the process of cremation, embalming, and other funeral practices.nialystic's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Suicide, Gore, Child death, Body horror, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Fatphobia and Suicidal thoughts
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
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
savyelizabeth's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Death
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Drug abuse
Minor: Classism and Racism
wai's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Death
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
cadence99's review against another edition
2.5
•the discussion of death practices in various cultures
•the authors personal musings on how best to manage the image and processing of death
What I didn’t like:
•chapters feel a bit disjointed in their themes
•the repeated use of race as a descriptor for ONLY non-white people when it is irrelevant to the narrative of the story being told
•pretty gross anti-fat comments, primarily in one particular section where she talks about her coworker declaring that despite the medical examiners determination to the contrary, the person MUST have died of a heart attack from being so fat and “This is why you can’t be fat!”- in addition to describing in great detail how fat bodies smell worse, but then dismissing the coworkers comments as “just fact” (even though he is literally ignoring fact by assuming the mans cause of death is not the one determined by the examiners professional assessment)
• in the same scene as above, repeatedly bringing up how her coworkers continually mistakenly say the person is Mexican, despite him being Salvadoran
•irrelevant added story where a coworker says they should fire bomb the city of San Francisco because it is a “hell pit”
Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Car accident, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infertility, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Ableism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abortion, Blood, Dementia, Racism, Addiction, and Child death