[QUOTE=lady_zana]Most parents wouldn't want their children exposed to death so often. As for the school, it would be hard for the buses/parents to drop off and pick up the kids from school on days that the funeral home was operating with a funeral-car-route.[QUOTE]

Well, it was a hypothetical question, I wasn't really thinking to the detail level of parking and car routes.

I was just trying to make the point that ANY business could say, "not in my backyard" to a funeral home on SOME grounds. And I find that sad.

Death is such a taboo in our culture here. I think we do a great disservice to our children by making death and dying a secret, dirty, not-seen-or-talked-about event. EVERYONE is going to attend a funeral and lose a loved one, most of us well before got out of high school. Death is a part of life. It is going to happen to us all. Better to teach our children that death can be a beautiful celebration of a life well lived and a person loved than that death, funerals and the deceased are such horrible things that they need to be located away from and out of sight of everyone.