new funeral

so fall quarter has started, and honestly this fall kinda feels different from last year.. perhaps we all have got used to everything around us - the school, the people, the system, everything.. last year everything was brand new.. and during this time it was the CIM recovery period, cuz we all had CIM SARS back then.. and all those 8.30am accounting classes, my gosh.. i'm so glad i won't have to do that again.. well, there's always the first time for everything right? some of which we hope would also be last :P

anyways, i was sitting in my service marketing class the other night, listening to dean honack talking about branding, marketing, etc. at one point he mentioned that these days, in some states, the new business is drive-thru funeral service.. took me a while to visualize.. but people actually have so little time they only drive through to pay respect to their friends or loved ones.. what has become of today's society? that sounds so sad doesn't it? sad enough it is a funeral, but even worse when you add the 'drive-thru' to it.. guess some people don't really care much now.. i pity the one lying in the cascet..

then again, quoted from my other prof kreamer, there are at least two sides to a story.. maybe those families cannot afford a full-service funeral.. maybe this option makes economic sense for them.. of course those who passed away wouldn't want the living to bear too much burden.. and come to think of it, the funeral is more for the living not the dead, don't you think? i'm not supporting drive-thru funerals of course, but i can't really oppose them either.. everyday you hear about new things/ideas sometimes you just can't keep up..