Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral Audiobook (Free)

A hilarious guide towards the intricate rituals, customs, and etiquette surrounding death in the South-and a practical assortment of formulas for the ultimate send-off.

As author Gayden Metcalfe asserts, people in the Delta have a solid sense of community, and being useless is zero impediment to owned by it. Down south, they don’t really ignore you when you’ve up and died-they may even like you better and go to you more regularly! But just as there can be an suitable way to live your life in the South, there can be an about Getting Dead Is No Reason: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral equally essentially tasteful method of departing it-and the funeral may be the last social event of the existence so that it must be taken care of perfectly. Metcalfe portrays this slice of American tradition in the manners, customs, and the tomato aspic with mayonnaise that characterize the Delta method of death.

Southerners want to swap tales, and Gayden Metcalfe, local of Greenville, MS, founder from the Greenville Arts Council and chairman from the St. James Episcopal Cathedral Bazaar, is certainly steeped in the stories and traditions of this rich area. She reminisces about the prominent family that drank too much and got the munchies the night time before the big event-and left not a crumb for the funeral (Naturally some early increasing, quick-witted ladies from your church saved your day, so the tale demonstrates some answers to potential engaging disasters!). After that there was the lady who allocated money to possess ‘Home on the Range’ sung on the service, and the family that insisted on a family portrait of their mom in her casket, and then refuse to pay for it on the lands that ‘Mama appears so unhappy.’

Each section ends with a geniune southern recipe which will come in handy in the event that you ‘strategy to pass away tastefully’, including Boiled Bourbon Custard; Aunt Hebe’s Coconut Cake; Pickled Shrimp; Homemade Mayonnaise; and Homemade Rolls.