Motorists who plan to drink or use drugs have until noon today to sign a contract at Rome’s McGuire, Jennings, & Miller Funeral Home that would lead to what amounts to a free funeral if the driver is killed in a wreck tonight.
After being posted at RN-T.com earlier this week, the story was also picked up by the New York Times, CNN, The Associated Press, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and others.
It was also the most read story at RN-T.com with more than 7,100 views by late Wednesday.
Barry Miller said that no one has ever signed the contract during the 10 years that the funeral home has offered the deal.
“I use that contract as a tool to make people stop and think,” said Miller.
Miller said he’s been associated with funeral homes across 13 states that have offered the drunk driver awareness campaign, but has never heard of anyone who actually signed the contract.
The funeral home will provide the embalming services, the casket, the vault, a grave, limousine services, facilities and staff for a chapel or church service and a bronze marker, as well as 100 engraved thank you cards.
You can spot these guys miles away.
Locally owned businesses would never do anything like this.
I agree with you. Its utterly outrageous that this funeral home is doing something that will help prevent future alcohol deaths. Thats a slap in the face to all those who died in alcohol related ways. They should apologize to all the dead for doing something to prevent future alcohol related deaths so the dead don't get angry about someone taking notice of their deaths and doing something to stop it helping from others
"What happens when someone, who might be extremely strapped for cash and is terminally ill, decides to sign up for this offer and ends up taking someone else with them when they go drinking or using drugs and driving?"
Well, I guess, since hell will have frozen over at that point, they will slip and slide into heaven, of course! And then Lucifer, in order to make some cash to turn the heat back on, will represent the terminally ill patient's surviving family in hopes of collecting funeral expenses from the funeral home based on this contract. Haven't you been in law school? When ol' Scratch loses the case, the family will have a legal malpractice suit against him and petition for a preliminary injunction to keep him from collecting their souls. But he wouldn't be able to collect them anyway because hell would still be frozen over!
Meanwhile, terminally ill drunk driver will be looking down from above, smirking at the foresight of the blogger Monti, who predicted his wreck approximately 36 hours before it happened!
I would also like to correct a glaring mistake in your post. "ROFLMAO. Just remember you are the one that said it." First off, I detest idiots that start sentences with "internet shorthand", such as "lol", "rofl", or "roflcopter", or any other "quantity of stupid". What are you, a 12 year old chatting with friends on Facebook? Secondly, it is "...you were the one"...", not "...you are the one...". I previously posted that remark; I am not currently saying it.
The only problem is that it never seems to be the drunk that dies. It's the innocent victim(s) that were obeying the law. What the funeral home should do is make the drunk SIGN/AGREE TO PAY FOR THE FUNERAL OF THE INNOCENT VICTIM(S)...
The only cost that should be covered for the drunk driver that caused the deaths is enough to cart off/dump the body somewhere it can't be smelt by everybody else.
If the thought of drinking and driving ever crossed my mind, something more like that would make me 'stop to think.'
Have a Bless Day
This is a rather tasteless idea and I think that whomever decided to pull this little stunt should be raked over the coals. What happens when someone, who might be extremely strapped for cash and is terminally ill, decides to sign up for this offer and ends up taking someone else with them when they go drinking or using drugs and driving?
There are some really big freaking idiots in this town.