You’ll Die Laughing

This tongue in cheek guide to the way death is done in the Delta felt very familiar to this Hillbilly in western North Carolina. While here in the mountains it might not be tomato aspic (gasp), the loyalty to certain funeral foods and the dos and don’ts for burying your loved ones feels like hearing an old familiar song sung in a new key. The sense of the comic and the tragic going hand in hand cuts across the South even into these hills. I laughed out loud more than once and now it’s time to plan my own funeral.