That was an awful book, wasn’t it?  I still do not understand why the Tennessee Board of Education saw fit to make it required reading for 11th grade English.  I mean, I am sure the societal commentary was piercing and the style paved the way for a uniquely American genre of literature and all that jazz, but it just drones on and on and on.  And on.

That’s beside the point, though, and it marks the last attempt at humor for the rest of a post dedicated to a decidedly unhumorous topic:  Death.  It happens, we don’t want it to, now what are you going to do about it? Continue reading →