Funeral home comes up with the perfect year-end publicity stunt

Those more generous might say it's a public-service act, but whatever ...drivers who sign up with a Rome, Georgia funeral home -- indicating they plan to drink or use drugs and drive on New Year’s Eve -- will get a free burial if they're killed in a wreck on Thursday. Rome News-Tribune)

Comments

[johnjohn]

Can they guarantee that their workers will not pose with us for pornographic photos? Or that their workers will not molest our chilled and twisted corpses? Unless I get that in writing I think I am going to have to say... no thanks.

[Saxo_Grammaticus]

There is something vaguely creepy about this, although I can't quite put my finger on it.

[Phranqlin]

You'd think funeral homes wouldn't discourage people from driving drunk on New Year's -- after all, it means more business for them!

[305club@cox.net]

Hell if it's good for the Oklahoma area I'm in.

[American Veteran]

Too late johnjohn.
They've already got YOUR PICTURE

[Lambiepie]

perhaps they should offer to sign up anyone that is planning something spectacularly stupid

going car/tree surfing - sign up for your free funeral

[Adam]

People are so funny about death. Everything that you were is gone. You're switched off and no longer exist. They can scoop my eyes out and make sweet love to my skull for all I care after I'm dead... that is, after everything useful is harvested for transplants.

Back on topic... good for them, it would be nice if there were some punishment that would make people not drink and drive. Something to the effect of, if you hurt someone else while driving drunk we do the same damage your genitals and you lose custody of your kids so they might grow up to be a little less worthless than you.

[Drake Timbershaft]

Adam's post leads me to announce that anyone who wants to make sweet love to Adam's eyeless skull after his death need only send me $10 to reserve a spot. Hurry! They're going fast!

That bit of lightheartedness aside, if it's free to sign up, why not go for the free burial? I could get killed by a drunk driver, and my family might as well get a free planting out of it.

[joel]

Wrong on so many levels, yet for some reason I can't object.

[ReginaFilangee]

Drake, the only problem with that is that you have to sign up in advance indicating your INTENT to commit a DUI.

Let's say you do, get into an accident, *don't* die......but kill someone else. You've effectively confessed ahead of time. The lawyers of the dead person's family would have a field day with that!

[mianne]

Way to look a gift horse in the mouth, Regina! =)

[thomas]

Hyundai drivers are not eligible.

[American Veteran]

thomas,
That really sucks.