By Hodine Williams ( May 23, 2025, 11:26 AM EDT) -- In Jamaica, where I’m from, there’s often a mix of amusement and uneasy reverence when people discuss what to do with a person’s “belongings” when their “number has been called.” We have a wry term for what happens to a person’s possessions after they’re gone: dead leff. (That’s “dead left” for the uninitiated.) It’s spoken with a knowing chuckle — but beneath that humour lies generations of family drama. I’ve seen dead leff turn siblings into rivals, parents and children into courtroom opponents spewing the vilest of venom, and distant relatives into sudden “experts” on who deserves what. A will might fuel arguments, but no will? Oh, dear reader, that’s when the real chaos begins!...