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“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it”*…
Whether it’s getting food, a cup of coffee, or making a cash withdrawal, you can get a lot of things without leaving the comfort of your car.
That now includes paying your final respects in a drive-thru window.
A new service has opened in Saginaw, Michigan called “Drive-thru viewing” at Ivan Phillips’ Funeral Home, they have been innovating funeral proceedings for years now, they even have a guide to prepaid funerals…
More (including a revealing video) at “Drive-thru open coffin viewing now available in US at funeral home.”
* Mark Twain
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As we muse on mortuary madness, we might recall that it was on this date in 1934 that Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was killed. A bank robber who was, simultaneously Public Enemy #1 and a folk hero in Depression-era America, Floyd was cornered and shot to death in an Ohio field by lawmen led by legendary FBI agent Melvin Purvis. His body was returned to his native Oklahoma, where his funeral was attended by between 20,000 and 40,000 people, and remains the largest funeral in Oklahoma history.
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