Posted on 10/01/2012 3:45:25 PM PDT by djone
"A funeral home in Compton 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 drive thru window....."
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where the heck is Compton?
Are Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Kim Il-Sung there too?
What about Helen Thomas? Well she looks likes she’s dead.
The same for Pelosi and Reid.
Now I’d pay to see that menagerie behind glass, permanently.
This reminds me of the radio commercial for the Drive-Thru Chapel and Baptismal Car Wash.
I was doing some helicopter training down that way and joke with the instructor that if we went down in Compton we would treat it like a combat SAR situation
Pffft! We had one of these in Hattiesburg MS over 40 years ago! Don’t know if it’s still in operation, but it was interesting, that’s for sure!
There is a long time drive-through funeral home on the south side of Chicago, ‘Gatlings”. I went there once, not knowing that it was a drive-through, to pay my respects to one of my co-workers, father who had passed. The old guy got off the couch at home after consuming a large quantity of alcohol and mistook the basement door for his bedroom door....
Anyway the guy at the door to the funeral home looked at me funny when I asked to see where the dearly departed was being waked. He pointed to a room down the hall. When I got to the door there was a room about a little larger than 6 x 6 feet containing four occupied caskets, each one up against each wall with an overhead cctv camera aimed at each of the dead’s faces. Any, I waved to the camera and got the hell out of there!
Drive by Funerals: Are They The Wave of The Future?
by Jamie Myles in Death, May 4, 2011
A handful of drive-thru funeral parlors are known to operate throughout the nation. Will this trend grow?
A Chicago funeral home has set up a drive-thru service with cameras and a sound system that lets on-the-go visitors pay their respects, sign the funeral register and view the remains of the loved one round the clock without ever leaving the car. Folks line up at the drive thru at Gatling’s Funeral Home on the city’s South Side to see the images of embalmed friends and relatives on a television screen covered by a white canopy that is lit up at night.
Adams funeral parlor, a well known mortuary in Compton since 1974, brings to the business of death a new convenience : drive-thru viewing of the dead. while close family and friends may enter the viewing rooms, There is the added convenience of a drive thru featuring a glass partition to view the deceased.
New Roads, Louisiana boasts the drive thru funerals at the Point Coupee Funeral Home
These mortuary drive thru”s are popular for gang members funerals. Due to a a rash of shootings at gang funerals, The bullet proof glass is a popular feature for those that are fearful of being shot when they come to pay their respects. Six people were shot August 2nd 2009 at a Chicago funeral. The funeral was for a self admitted gang banger who died at the age 28 from obesity and heart trouble. According to the police a rival gang banger identified his target out side the funeral opened fire and then fired into the crowd as he fled. This has become a common occurrence and gang members funerals.
Read more: http://socyberty.com/death/drive-by-funerals-are-they-the-wave-of-the-future/#ixzz285iF0Auu
I don’t goto a funeral parlor to see the dead guy or gal, I remember them from when they were alive.
I go to give my condolences to the family and to comfort them if I can, To say prayers for their future in the afterlife.
I wouldn’t even dream of driving through a drive-through exhibition of a stiff that the family so disrespected that they don’t even show up for the prayers and viewing .
I suppose if they are cremated they just put a jar in the window.
CC
Nice and it’s ADA compliant.
At the 1:26 mark you can a person ride up on a scooter for people who can’t walk and it would be great for those in wheel chairs.
What the should do is put the caskets on a lazy susan and let the bodies float on by as if they are on a carousel.
You could load the slots when the body is out of view with another casket.
I say charge $3 admission.
So Cal
>I wouldn’t even dream of driving through a drive-through exhibition of a stiff that the family so disrespected that they don’t even show up for the prayers and viewing.<
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Perhaps you should reconsider.
Perhaps you will be the only one who would give this “stiff” the last respect he/she craved for.
Perhaps that “stiff” will reciprocate some day when it is your time in the coffin.
Perhaps it will bring you graces and blessings that you never expected to receive.
Perhaps the family should have enough respect for their dead not to put them on view like so much trash.
Perhaps they should have the rspect to give them the tyraditional viewing and prayers they deserve.
I would as soon have my kids just toss my body on the dump as to disrespect me in such a manner.
A body is just an article. There is no life in it., I do not go to the funeral home to see the body ,but to comfort the family. Why should I wish to see a dead friend laid out in a window .
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