Southern Departures: Death and Funerals in the South

Various instructors

Is there a particularly southern manner of leaving this world? Loosely based on Gayden Metcalfe’s Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral, this lively series explores the ways and means of dying; examines required writing surrounding the dearly departed; exposes differences between “high” and “low” church funerals (and southern Jewish funerals too); and—last but far from least—food! It’s time to laugh instead of cry with this lighthearted look at dying in the South.