Drive-Thru..Viewing?

[Webster]

Have we become so lazy as to do this nowadays?

Huffington Post: Virginia Funeral Home, Oliver & Eggleston Funeral Establishment, Offers Drive-Thru Services

Ever wished that you didn't have to leave your car to view a loved one who has died?

A Virginia funeral home, Farmville's Oliver & Eggleston Funeral Establishment, is now offering drive-thru viewing services. The company is staying consistent with its motto: "Services That's Distinctive--Experience The Difference."

"It's designed for people who have disabilities or...inclement weather," President Carl Eggleston told WTVR. "You can have a regular viewing in a regular room, and then at night, if we want to roll you over here, and put you in here, we can put the person in here."

Other drive-thru funeral viewings are reportedly on offer in California, Chicago and Louisiana. But it's thought that Oliver & Eggleston -- which also provides horse-drawn hearses, as well as other unusual accommodations -- is the first business to offer this service in the Old Dominion.

"Somebody's got to be the first one," Eggleston told WTVR. "We just offer the families something different, so they have options."

"I guess because it's new, people aren't used to it," one local resident told WSET. "But it could possibly catch on."

Indeed, while no one has yet purchased the drive-thru option, Eggleston told WSET the service is attracting attention.

"I get a lot of calls and a lot of people come by just to take photographs of it," he said.

...there are no words here...thoughts?

 

[DrLeftover]

Not new.

Still in poor taste, even in Los Angeles, see below.

But not new.


This was from 2011

Paying their respects outside funeral home
A drive-thru in Compton with a glass-encased chamber for the coffin offers convenience to mourners. It also provides a speedy way for well-known community members to be viewed en masse.

April 17, 2011

Known for her flamboyant hats and dazzling jewelry, Bernice Woods relished being in the public eye.

So when the longtime community volunteer and former Compton city councilwoman died last month, her children opted to place her open casket in the drive-thru display window of Robert L. Adams Mortuary in Compton.

"My mother was a community person," said Gregory W. Woods, 55, the youngest of the deceased woman's 10 children. "She meant so much to so many people. It is only fitting and proper that she would be viewed this way."

Adams funeral parlor, a fixture in Compton since 1974, brings to the business of death a convenience of the living: drive-thru viewing of the dead.

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

 

[Dee]

Yeah, this is just... I don't even know. Get out of the damn car, okay? xD Get into a chair with wheels on it. ANYTHING. So it's raining. So it's windy. So it's snowing. A person has died! Pay your damn respects to them properly. Don't treat them like you're making a trip to McDonald's.

 

[Jazzy]

Yeah, this is just... I don't even know. Get out of the damn car, okay? xD Get into a chair with wheels on it. ANYTHING. So it's raining. So it's windy. So it's snowing. A person has died! Pay your damn respects to them properly. Don't treat them like you're making a trip to McDonald's.

Very well said and I agree with you!