It works like this: sensors in the ground detect a car’s weight when it pulls into the drive-thru lane. This triggers the curtains to pull back on the drive-thru window, revealing the casket, tilted at a minor angle to make for easier in-car viewing.
“I wanted to bring something to Saginaw that we’ve never had here before,” Ivan Phillips, owner of Paradise Funeral Chapel, told WNEM News in Saginaw.
“You may find people who are afraid of funeral homes, now they can view their loved ones from the convenience of their car.”
, and I mean that both literally and metaphorically.
