[Pulp Fiction]

http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/...64391.html

Is this what we've come to????????????


A drive-thru funeral home? Are we too busy to pay our respects to the family and friends we've come to love on this side of Jordan?

I could understand if somebody lives in Florida and the funeral is in Kansas and the service is streamed over the net..... but if you are able to come to the funeral home, then there is no reason why you have to go through the drive-thru to pay your respects.

[Granny Bear]

I don't see that ever being the norm!! Let's be honest, 95% of what we do to remember the death of a person, is done for the family and close friends who are left.

If your commemorative was just for the dead, then my funeral will be a hoot!!!!

[Spud6]

This is just really disturbing!

[LWC]

As a pastor I could never grasp the need for this. I am assuming that this was just an entrepreneur trying to be innovative and get ahead of what he/she believes is the curve.

[Spirit100]

As a pastor I could never grasp the need for this. I am assuming that this was just an entrepreneur trying to be innovative and get ahead of what he/she believes is the curve.

The "justification" for this per the funeral home is to accomadate the disabled and wheelchair bound folks who could not be moved into the funeral home to pay respects as most of us do.

I agree with the majorities dislike. I don't care for it either. However, in a couple circumstances family members would not be able to view their loved one without the drive thru window.

With this being the case, don't be surprised if you see more pop up on the radar. This story aired on the national news a couple nights ago.

[Pulp Fiction]

Growing up in eastern Kentucky, I can attest that if somebody you know passes away or somebody in their family passes away... the least you do is go to the visitation either at the funeral home or the church. You send flowers, bring food and sit in those hard as a brick seats.

Call me crazy, but that is one of the most thoughtful and respectful things you can do.


But driving thru at a funeral home to pay your respects is an insult. And don't give me that line of some people can't view their loved ones without a drive-thru. If somebody really wants to go to the visitation, they will. If you can take the time and effort to drive-thru.... you can go in and pay your respects.

[Granny Bear]

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Old timey kind of stuff there Pulp. I can even go back farther and tell you much older stores...back when we used to bring the coffin home, and sit up all night.

I know that sounds weird, but that's exactly what happened. Most people had folks that would travel home for the funeral, and back then that was most often a several day event. I remember my grandmother cooking for a huge bunch of people, and my mother staying up 48 hrs straight.

That wasn't a celebration of life either; it was a mournful depressing time. I don't particularly care for the drive thru idea, but I am glad that some of the older traditions have changed.

[Spirit100]

Put me on ice and have a huge picnic is what I say.

I might have to budget an annual picnic for atleast a few years after my passing so people can continue to enjoy each others company and build new friendships. I've got a pretty ecclectic "sphere of influence."

People can mourn on their own time. I wanna celebration!!!

inglepar

[Granny Bear]

Exactly!!!

Prop me up in the corner and have a blast!!!!

[Pulp Fiction]

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Old timey kind of stuff there Pulp. I can even go back farther and tell you much older stores...back when we used to bring the coffin home, and sit up all night.

I know that sounds weird, but that's exactly what happened. Most people had folks that would travel home for the funeral, and back then that was most often a several day event. I remember my grandmother cooking for a huge bunch of people, and my mother staying up 48 hrs straight.

That wasn't a celebration of life either; it was a mournful depressing time. I don't particularly care for the drive thru idea, but I am glad that some of the older traditions have changed.

Granny Bear.... I was born in 1985. And that's all I'll say :biggrin:

My mother's side of the family (which everybody has passed away now) were United Baptist. I know all about staying with the body at the church. I've seen a few people brought home for funerals, but nobody in my family has done it in my life time.


When my granny passed away in 2013, her church brought food to her house and the funeral home. Our church brought food to her house and the church and her neighbors did the same thing.

I guess if you didn't know any better... a drive-thru funeral service would be a great way to pay your respects. However, after being raised in the hills all my life.... there is no way anybody in my family that is living (not including future generations) would be at a drive-thru funeral home. And secondly... if by chance somebody in my family was at a drive-thru funeral home. If anybody used the drive-thru section... I would not speak to them again, ever. And I would have the funeral directors to have them removed from the area. If you can't come to the visitation/funeral.... then don't come. Be honest and say you couldn't make it. Don't pay respects to any body in my family or myself by the same action you do at a fast food restaurant.

[Pulp Fiction]

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Are you gonna sign the Guest Book at winow #1 and view the body at window #2???

[LWC]

The "justification" for this per the funeral home is to accomadate the disabled and wheelchair bound folks who could not be moved into the funeral home to pay respects as most of us do.

I agree with the majorities dislike. I don't care for it either. However, in a couple circumstances family members would not be able to view their loved one without the drive thru window.

With this being the case, don't be surprised if you see more pop up on the radar. This story aired on the national news a couple nights ago.

In that case, wouldn't a ramp suffice? Maybe creating a drive-thru is more cost efficient.

[Spirit100]

So you guys have missed the whole "celebrate" life concept?

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