Hite’s Funeral Home’s Christmas Ghosts

I received a survey letter from a local funeral home; it was all very proper and dignified and I can’t fault it at all. It’s just . . . well, it’s right before Christmas and I had just been thinking of Scrooge’s ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future. I saw in my mind’s eye as I scanned through the questions about pre-planning and funeral costs, the cold and lonely grave in Scrooge’s future unless he changed.

My granddaughter asked what I was looking at and I told her and she wanted to know if it was a limited time offer for a funeral discount. You know, die in the next 30 days and you can get a coupon for a family member sort of thing. Youth will find humor in things. At my age, I heard the echo of Marley’s chains.