Need to pay your respect to the dearly departed, but in a big hurry? That’s not a problem in this Compton Funeral Home: it has a drive-thru viewing of the dead.

Visitors are greeted by a huge red-lettered sign above the entrance of the stone building on East Palmer Street. In the reception lounge, gold chandeliers dangle so low that tall visitors have to duck. Plastic swathes the pink upholstered seats.

And off to the side of the main double doors is the covered and paved 12-foot wide drive-thru, its long glass display window visible from the street. [...]

"You can come by after work, you don’t need to deal with parking, you can sign the book outside and the family knows that you paid your respects," said Scott Adams. "It’s a convenience thing."

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The Kocian Law Group in Manchester, Connecticut bought an old Kenny Rogers restaurant to use as an office. The building has been renovated to look like any other law office, except for the drive-through window:

“We have drive-thrus for ATMs and we have that customer convenience. Why not a law firm?” attorney Nick Kocian asked.

Kocian wanted to make things convenient for customers to easily drop off and pick up documents. He has been told this is the first drive-thru legal service in Connecticut and possibly the country.

“We represent a lot of injured people,” Kocian said. “If you have somebody who’s in a wheelchair or somebody who’s hurt, it’s convenient.”

At the link, you can watch a news video about the firm.

Link via Jalopnik | Image: NBC Connecticut

A variation on the rap drive-thru.  Done for viral advertising purposes but still enjoyable.  I think Neatorama ran a less-slick version of this long ago, but I can’t find it.

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.