Now, a drive-thru funeral window that allows for 'quick' mourning from car

A Michigan funeral home has introduced a drive-thru funeral window that allows people to mourn for their lost loved ones from car.

Ivan Phillips, president of the Paradise Funeral Chapel in Saginaw, Michigan, said that people get three minutes to sign the guestbook and say goodbye, ABC News reported.

Phillips added that a drive-thru window, which is actually a sheet of bulletproof glass covered by curtains connected to a motion sensor, would be a perfect place for people who think funeral homes are gloomy or dark and people who are in wheelchairs.

Phillips got this idea in 2013 when he was working with an elderly woman whose husband passed away, and she was too sick and couldn't move well enough to attend his funeral.

He continued that in the premises, there are arrows leading up to the drive-thru, a registry book to sign and a memorial box for anyone who wants to drop off a sympathy card.

There are similar services in California, South Carolina and Virginia.