Obit Magazine
May 7, 2012
Death is very much a part of life in New Orleans. Funerals can become celebrations featuring parades, jazz bands, dancing, even hot dog vendors. Cemeteries — more than 40 within city limits — are also tourist attractions, neither foreboding nor uninviting. For locals, they are familiar parts of everyday life. Tennessee Williams knew this; in his classic play he had Blanche DuBois tell her sister, Stella, “They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries….”
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