If you’re too busy to actually stop for a minute and smell the roses on top of your beloved’s casket, that’s okay. A funeral home in Compton is now offering body viewings via drive thru, and I suspect that many of bodies being viewed are as a result of drive-by’s. Somehow fitting for Compton… I think Dre would be proud.
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.”
