COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — A north side funeral home could soon serve mourners in a new way: alcohol.
‘Evergreen Funeral Cremation and Reception’ is set to open next year. They applied for a liquor license and could soon be serving people during services.
Owners tell WSYX that this is a unique twist to a celebration of life, and they want to change how people view an average funeral. more
what’s the phrase the kids use these days?
This funeral gone be LIT!!!!
Nothing like an Irish funeral!
At what point did we all “agree” that it was OK for the government to dictate who can or cannot serve/sell alcohol? At what point did we all “agree” that it was ok for them to CHARGE people HUGE AMOUNTS for the privilege? Hope they know what they are doing though. Funerals and alcohol can BOTH bring out the worst in folks. Maybe near future business??
Oh great, a toast to the dead. Next in black funeral homes they’ll bring out the malt liquor. And for dead stoners why not celebrating their passing with getting high on marijuana.
Last year: How’s business?
Dead
Next year: How’s bussiness?
Lookin up!
Open bar would bring the whole town out for a funeral.
Will they check guns at ‘hood mortuaries? Will mourners everywhere get DUIs on the way to the cemetary? Will drunk and loud funerals wake up the dead?
…Ive been to a lot of funerals.
Really one HELL of a lot of funerals.
Based on what Ive seen as both an outside mourner and a family member (but not, so far, as the guest of honor), I think the rule should always be the same for every funeral, however small or however grand.
Do what the family wants.
…funerals are not about the dead, but about the living. Whatever brings them solace is what should be. Just because the funeral parlor offers it doesnt mean you HAVE to take it, its just there for who wants it, just like at a wedding reception or a Christmas party, no more and no less.
But Ohio law DOES put the onus on the server for overserving, so there’s that. Its on THEM to cut someone off, and that may seem harsh in that context; but like any other bar, if their patrons get toasted and gives them fresh corpses, its going to come back and bite them.
And with folks literally drowning their sorrows, it may be more of a risk than your average bear has.
It would also seem to raise questions about minors at the funeral and, in Ohio, cause issues with concealed carry mourners.
But it doesnt really change the dynamic. If someone want to get fried they will do it in the parking lot, THEN come in and fight with the other 2 girlfriends and the wife over who the corpse loved more anyway, so not serving doesnt solve a problem so much as moves it elsewhere, where you are less likely to know about it and watch out for it, so there’s that.
Dead people do not care.
Its all about those who were left in their wake at that point.
And its not my place or anyone else’s to tell someone how to bury their dead.
As long as it doesnt produce MORE dead, have at it.
…just be clear-eyed about the responsibilty you are taking upon yourself, as we live in an age where personal responsibility no longer exists…
SNS – But Ohio law DOES put the onus on the server for overserving, so there’s that.
Cop: “Are you drunk?”
Foster Brooks: Nooooo… buuurp… but I may have been over-served.
geoff the aardvark
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 12:25 at 12:25 pm
“And for dead stoners why not celebrating their passing with getting high on marijuana.”
…I was at a funeral for somebody’s cousin where most of the mourners came up to the coffin and put (unlit) cigarettes and (closed) beer in the casket, one guy even putting a smoke in the corpse bride’s fingers.
Must have been pretty affected because he killed himself the next week.
…I dont know everything about many of the folks Ive seen in boxes, so maybe they WOULD like it, who knows.
I just accept that everyone copes, or not, in their own way.
As long as it doesnt threaten or injure anyone else, whatever gives you comfort I guess, although only the Holy Spirit can REALLY do that as that young, disturbed man apparently discovered too late if at all…
Harry
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 12:54 at 12:54 pm
…like I said, putting responsibility on everything and anything but the actual perpetrator is the DemoRino way.
And with a Governor that’s as GOP-E as they come, Ohio is certainly not immune…
Oh great! Now you can start the wake right after the funeral service. No need to drive anywhere. A One-Stop shop!
See over there, son? He’s dead, and they’re all drunk.
… and the guy in the casket is dead drunk!
geoff the aardvark
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 12:25 at 12:25 pm
“And for dead stoners why not celebrating their passing with getting high on marijuana.”
…but the crowd that REALLY isnt helpful is the heroin addicts. I was at the funeral for one such, the wayward son of a dear friend who didnt have his wife in the driveway to Narc him one day, so his fresh, warm corpse was found by his 10 yo son.
I only knew him slightly, met him a time or two, worked with him indirectly and very briefly during a short period of his sobriety at my drug-testing employer, so I was basically there to support my freind and his fam by extension and little else. Also, the decedent’s first son and my freinds first grandson had died a few days after birth (Mom used Horse as well) and I’d piped the bagpipes at his funeral, so I had them with me to do the same for the father as I’d done for the son and had no plans for anything else.
Dude was a singer in a frankly bad thrash metal band so there were a pack of his ‘freinds’/ followers/fellow addicts there to theoretcally mourn, many of which traveled from funeral home to cemetary blasting the same song from the awful band from CDs (remember those?) provided by the funeral home for that purpose in the motorcade past doubtlessly confused onlookers. We did arrive in better order than you would think at the cemetary and it came time to pull the casket…and one of the pallbearers freaked out and refused to do his duty. Well, everyone has his limits and there were a PACK of younger folks around, so the funeral director, who had not thought to bring extra manpower, asked for a sub.
Not one person who supposedly knew and loved him so well stepped up.
I let it go the first time as I had brought a bad knee with me and ALL these other folk were nominally MUCH closer pals of his than I, but the second time when I saw the stricken look on my freind’s face, knee be damned, I handed my pipes off to random hollow-eyed chick and grabbed a runner, and off we went. God being merciful He strengthened me to the task, probably because He knew it shouldnt have been mine in the first place, and we placed the casket on the straps over the grave, next to the tiny one of his first son, without incident. I retrieved my pipes and all else went forwards without incident, if somewhat punctuated during the GRAVESIDE SERVICE by addicts getting bored and leaving and making deals in not-quite quiet enough whispers for the same thing that killed the person they were supposed to be there to morn.
…frankly, I would have welcomed it if they were “only” pot smokers. At least weed makes some folks sensitive.
Heroin makes them amoral scuzzballs.
But they were still people who were at least going through the motions, coping the only way they knew to cope, and whatever I may have thought about them the funeral isnt the time nor the grave the place to rebuke them.
His 10yo son who had held his father’s cooling corpse and was in his OWN process of understanding how profoundly his world had just changed, didnt deserve that.
Reminds me of the animal hospital and taxidermy shop their slogan was “you’ll get your pet back one way or another”.
Reminds me of the staffer who handed Jill a note that said: The taxidermist just called. He said your husband’s ready for pick up.
Someone will get sloshed and punch out the deceased, mark my words.
We permit it in VA
Open Casket, Open Bar, and Open Carry…..We’re putting the “Fun” back in
Funeral….”Where ya sittin?….in the Pew…..Pew Pew Pew!!!!
SNS , Didn’t know that you could play Bagpipes. You should be writing a book about yourself.
The surviving spouse is single and ready to mingle.
“Bartender, I’ll have a stiff one”.
Geni
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 14:34 at 2:34 pm
“SNS , Didn’t know that you could play Bagpipes. You should be writing a book about yourself.”
…badly. I can fumble my way through “Amazing Grace”, but not a ton else. Mostly I piped at my dad’s grave on Father’s Day and his birthday with my mother by my side, but I’ve added some dates as my mother passed on Valentine’s Day this year.
She always told my dad as we walked from the grave, “See you soon”. Well. “soon” came too soon for me so I piped at her funeral as well.
Got my war face on this Christmas. Somehow seems less jolly to me with my mother on the other side, but theres other fam and young ones to consider and she’s with Jesus, so this is the only place to have my selfish little pity party, but I do appreciate that here, behind a mostly anonymous curtain, I can.
…as for writing a book about myself, some here will tell you I already have, in this blog, and not always in a complementary way. Unfortunately my perspective is the only one I have, I cant speak from anyone else’s because Im not a Democrat, so I bring in my own experiences as they seem to fit the topic to me at the time. Happily (for me), BFH and company have thus far been tolerant of my indulgences (I have asked at times before), so as long as my hosts are not sick of me, these vignettes will continue randomly as seems appropriate to me.
Its nice to have a space to vent, relate, and pray at times with others here, even with the occasional troll. I appreciate the comments and prayers of others, yourself included Geni, but I have no coin to repay it with other than contributing to our shared story myself, so here we are…
SNS, you’re a talented writer. As I’ve said before and in agreement with Geni – you should write a book of some kind. So many who comment here at iotwr admire and appreciate your posts.
You’ve blessed us with your experiences. A lot of us think it would be great if you share them with the rest of the world. Besides, you might just gain notable profit, favor and popularity. None of which you’re seeking, I can tell. Those things just come with the territory of a great writer and that’s you.
Also, SNS you’re an incredible prayer warrior! Another God given gift.
SNS , Yes am also feeling melancholy this Year since my Husband passed away in April. I used to love hearing Amazing Grace on Bagpipes but ever since 9/11/2001 I couldn’t stand to hear it over and over again since our house is only a block away from our Church. When my Dearest Husband passed I asked for Morning Has Broken to be played on his way to the Cemetery. He was a Secular Franciscan and did his best to live the scriptures every day . I placed the Cross of San Damiano over him at the Funeral home and it’s on our entrance door now. I now wear his plain old wooden Tau . When I go to join him I only hope that someone will play Morning Has Broken for me. (NOT on Bagpipes though, ha!)
99th Squad Leader – You’re no slouch, either ya know !
lickher license: lesbian marriage permit?
I’m thinking I’d like a Dixieland jazz band for my funeral, playing When the Saints Go Marching In. And if the funeral home serves drinks, the first round is on me. Happy trails to you, until we meet again.