Michigan funeral home provides drive-thru option

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 10.17.2014 | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER

[dware]

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — Only a couple of families have taken advantage of a new service available at a Saginaw funeral home.

Drive-thru viewings.

Paradise Funeral Chapel recently started offering the option, which allows mourners to pay their last respects on the go. It was designed in part to cater to those with physical limitations.

[dware]

Honk for assistance?

[laplata]

You could stop at McDonalds first and then stop by and see the dead guy while you’re eating a Big Mac.

[TurboZamboni]

You want fries with that?

[dware]

I’m thinking prank setup...put a living human in the casket, and have them pop up as the cars drive thru...

[ArmstedFragg]

From the headline, I was picturing a situation where you drive through and drop off the dearly departed. Which, come to think of it, is pretty much the way the local Mexican gang-bangers use our hospital’s parking lot.

[slumber1]

In by 9 out by 6?

[bgill]

Do you get fries with that?

[bgill]

great minds..

[laplata]

LOL good one.

[laplata]

And plenty of ketchup.

[dalereed]

I clicked on the headline thinking it was a place where you could check in, pay the fee, commit suicide and everything was taken care of in their driveway.

[faithhopecharity]

Just like at Jack in the box ?

[Slambat]

“At Paradise Funeral Chapel you
can take advantage of our new “drive in
and drop off your dead” funeral pyre and
receive a coupon worth 75kwh of your next
months light bill. And now this week we
will be accepting the almost dead for Ebola
victims.”

[Slambat]

“I’m thinking prank setup...put a living human in the casket, and have them pop up as the cars drive thru...”

Oh just the thought of that, good one.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“or, for a few dollars more, we can set you up with our Ex-Spouse Package which will allow you to actually drive OVER the deceased...”

[tophat9000]

So if the deceased is named Jack...

Would this be a “Jack in the Box” drive through?

[tophat9000]

I wonder if the have McCoffins trademarked?

[DanielRedfoot]

Imagine if the dead guy actually worked at the McDs drive through before he died...

[Pearls Before Swine]

I was in Cincinnati about 20 years ago on business. The guy I was visiting drove me by some of the sights, one of which was a drive-through funeral home. So, it's been done before.

All of the convenience of a drive-through liquor store, without the alcohol.

[SunkenCiv]

This has been tried before — it failed because there weren’t that many dead people driving around.