Book Info enlarge picture Being Dead is No Excuse : The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral   Author: Gayden Metcalfe, Charlotte Hays ISBN: 1401359345 Format: Publish Date:         /bookfreeway/freewaycompare?isbn=1401359345&src=Being+Dead+is+No+Excuse+:+The+Official+Southern+Ladies+Guide+to+Hosting+the+Perfect+Funeral          Book Review From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Metcalfe, a lifelong Southerner who's been hiding out in the social circles of Greenville, Miss., exposes the culinary and cultural last rites of the deep South in a fashion that is as sidesplitting as it is politically incorrect, as sincere as it is backstabbingly brutal. She is capably aided by Hays, a "recovering gossip columnist" from Washington, D.C. Residents of...