Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

52 reviews

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

paigicus's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide attempt

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

maethereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

A very enlightening read! Some of the personal details, like with the love interest, seemed unnecessary and out of place, but I also understand this is a memoir if someone who is in the early 20s. I really appreciated this look inside the death industry, and I learned so much about embalming and cremation, and the history of both. I will definitely be looking into green/natural options for myself and my loved ones. Hearing the stories of death, or more like dead bodies, definitely helped me understand this topic which is so hidden in modern life. I feel so much more prepared and grateful to have read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, and Child death

Minor: Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Cancer, Car accident, and Terminal illness

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

jenisliterate's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

samlikesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Excrement, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Blood, Child death, Suicide, Grief, and Terminal illness

Minor: Drug abuse and Dementia

lizzzardbean's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

earthbound_edits's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Miscarriage, Child death, and Suicide attempt

rebecca_mdx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts