Drive Thru Funeral Home..

[HipChick]

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A funeral home in CA offers drive-thru funerals behind bullet proof glass. The dead are laid out behind a glass window no different from a department store display or a McDonald's drive through window.

You can come by after work, you don't need to deal with parking, you can sign the book outside and the family knows that you paid your respects," said Scott Adams. "It's a convenience thing."

The venue provides a speedy way for well-known community folk to be viewed en masse. Seniors don't have to leave their cars. Those who can't stomach stepping inside a funeral home don't have to. Families can avoid the complications of hosting a formal indoor viewing. And the disabled can roll through in their own wheelchairs — as one woman recently did.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/17/local/la-me-adv-drive-thru-funerals-20110417

[Turbineguy]

1. This is the sort of forward thinking

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we'll need if the GOP wins in November. The death industry will boom!

[southernyankeebelle]

2. Ghoulish, just ghoulish. Why bother to show up if you don't go in and pay respects to the family.

I think it is so disrespectful. Surely you can take the time to visit the family. In the catholic family I come from we usually do a prayer of the rosaries. People who never seen it before stand or sit respectfully to watch and listen. Sometimes there are booklets and you can follow it if you want. I sure wouldn't want someone I didn't know to stop by a window to see me. Ghoulish. After all we aren't going thru the fast food order line. I think the dead person deserves the time and respect.

[provis99]

3. there's something intrinsically American about this.

From the land that invented the drive-in restaurant, the drive-in theater, and the drive-in church.

[HipChick]

4. Good point..

Does it make the US a lazy nation?