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Source: Boston.com
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ROME, Ga.—Planning to drink and drive this New Year’s? A north Georgia funeral home has a deal for you. Between now and noon Thursday, drivers can visit McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome to sign a contract stating they plan to drink or take drugs and then drive on New Year’s Eve. If they die in a wreck that day, the funeral home will give them a free burial.

Are you kidding me? Just give them an excuse. So they’re signing a contract saying that they will break the law on New Year’s Eve and will put other drivers and pedestrians at risk. How is this at all lawful? A free burial is nice, but like this? More than a little ridiculous, don’t you think?

The article also states that “funeral home officials said the program is designed to save lives by making partygoers think twice about drinking and driving.” My question is, how could it possibly do this? The person is getting a reward, i.e., less family financial hardship after death, for getting themselves killed in a DUI. I don’t see how this saves lives at all. If anything, it puts innocent drivers at risk. I’d stay off the road in this town during New Year’s Eve if I was in Rome, Georgia and this kind of thing catches on. Hopefully, people find it as ridiculous as I do.

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