[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.