http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/09/10362637-inside-las-drive-thru-and-bulletproof-funeral-home

Virgo Moon/Cappy rising is appalled!!  

Do we really not have the time to pay respects to our loved ones?   Is this even respectful?

There is evidence Neanderthals carefully prepared and buried their loved ones.  Now I guess we just leave them in the wake of our exhaust and perhaps with a squeal of the tires.

Personally, there is no way I would be laid out in a drive through, and if that's the kind of respects people want to pay, then I rather just skip the whole thing.

yeah me too.

Um... I think any person with a heart would be appalled. This is disgusting. Made convenient so you don't have to worry about parking or signing in? So unbelievably disrespectful.

I don't think human life is worth much these days and this is another example.

i am saddened and disturbed and feel physically ill by this. i regret clicking :(

I'm sorry dorchid!!  Didn't mean to do that to you!

This could just be my mood today (t. Moon in Virgo is semi-sextile my 8th House Saturn) but this doesn't upset me. Meaning--I wouldn't mind being the body viewed in a drive through.

I'm sorry if this offends anyone!

(The truth is, I'm getting cremated because it's cheaper---$3000 in my city as opposed to many more thousands for a burial).

I saw this in the news.  The funeral home is in Compton, LA where gang warfare is rife.  Personally, I think it's a great idea and am not offended.  I don't care to be shot at while paying my respects.

@Kashmiri - I'm with you, getting cremated.

Some people want to be catapulted in to space, others buried at sea ... so why not a drive through viewing. It's not my speed, however. :P

hadesmoon - don't be sorry. it happens, i feel particularly anxious today in general

i can be matter-of-fact about it. humans have handled death in all myriad of ways since the dawn of time.

nice pun, catfishmass!

"The funeral home is in Compton"

I agree with Jennifer.

I think the location explains a hell of a lot about how someone came up with the idea to do this. If it's a somewhat common problem where you live that people can't go to a funeral without a genuine fear of getting shot at, a drive-through funeral parlor starts sounding like a practical idea.

I wouldn't care for it, but I don't live in an area where people get shot at funerals.

Thanks for the clarification, Jennifer...Context makes a big difference, eh?

Still...especially in the wake of recently hearing about the ongoing Cook County (Chicago) Morgue and Potter's Field debacles...

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/02/146197363/families-suffer-through-chicago-morgue-backlog

...It is disturbing that respect for/honoring of the dead has become difficult and/or lost importance in our culture and society...