The Party’s Where?
Where's a good place to take the little ones to see the Easter Bunny? Who's holding a chili cook off? Devanny-Condron Funeral Home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is the answer to both questions. Terry Probst, the new managing partner at the funeral home, wants to make it a community center of sorts. He says a Funeral Home is a 'living, breathing thing' in fact he and his family live upstairs there. Probst offers limo rides to couples celebrating 50 or more years of marriage and provides a birthday cake each month to the local senior center for all that months birthdays. He also hopes to hold a murder mystery dinner at the Funeral Home in May.
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i really can't see me taking a child to the local funeral home to see the easter bunny. the limo rides for 50+ annaversaries and birthday cakes to the local senior center sounds a little creepy to me. like the idea is when these old people pass away those around them will remember devanny-condron that sent the nice cake or where grandma and grandpa went for the limo ride because you know, how long could it be till one of them kicks off and good old d-c gets the business. marketing, maybe, but still kinda ghoulish. and don't even get me started on living upstairs above a funeral home. (shudder!)
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 03/04/10 at 09:13 PM
I loved Six Feet Under, never watched it, Patty? What do the limo rides consist of? A ride that takes them wherever they want to go, or just some sort of thrill ride? I doubt many people 70+ would be interested in getting in a limo just for the sake of being in one. Putting that 50th stipulation on there doesn't sit right with me.
And I think the birthday cakes are just chintzy. One cake per month for the whole center? For a center serving a county population of 134,953. What an expense the opportunists are bearing for a little advertising.
How long before everyone that would go there has to go to a funeral there, and attending for any other reason would just hold too many bad memories?
Or perhaps you have some fond, light-hearted memories of attending events with the deceased at the home and couldn't bear to have the funeral there?
This story made me recall the time on Six Feet Under that the Fishers had taken out space on a billboard in view of a nursing home.
And I think the birthday cakes are just chintzy. One cake per month for the whole center? For a center serving a county population of 134,953. What an expense the opportunists are bearing for a little advertising.
How long before everyone that would go there has to go to a funeral there, and attending for any other reason would just hold too many bad memories?
Or perhaps you have some fond, light-hearted memories of attending events with the deceased at the home and couldn't bear to have the funeral there?
This story made me recall the time on Six Feet Under that the Fishers had taken out space on a billboard in view of a nursing home.
Posted by qualityleashdog on 03/04/10 at 09:54 PM
space on a billboard in view of a nursing home.
that's funny qld! :lol: in a twisted way of course. actually, no, i've never seen the show. i kind of looked at the limo and cake things as being tasteless like the billboard idea. you are right about the memories of a place like that being to strong. 37 years later and i am sure i couldn't attend a community function at the fh where my dad's funeral was and i was only 8 then. how about the murder mystery dinner that's an uncomfortable idea as well.
that's funny qld! :lol: in a twisted way of course. actually, no, i've never seen the show. i kind of looked at the limo and cake things as being tasteless like the billboard idea. you are right about the memories of a place like that being to strong. 37 years later and i am sure i couldn't attend a community function at the fh where my dad's funeral was and i was only 8 then. how about the murder mystery dinner that's an uncomfortable idea as well.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 03/04/10 at 10:18 PM
It's certainly one of those shows you have to be in on from the beginning, it's not as good to just watch a random episode.
Posted by qualityleashdog on 03/04/10 at 10:48 PM
Wasn't it just yesterday we were giggling about some ad where hubby was choking the Mrs. with "the wrong shirt"? Advertisement, it seems, is still a bit weird.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/05/10 at 12:04 AM
I guess he wants people to think of the funeral home as just another place in town, rather than a creepy building. Unfortunately, it would take decades for that idea to get changed in people's minds.
And it sounds to me more like he's being cheap as hell rather than creepy with the advertising. By limiting the free limo rides to people having a 50th wedding anniversary, he's probably going to pay for one, maybe two, limo rides per year? If that. People don't stay married anymore.
And it sounds to me more like he's being cheap as hell rather than creepy with the advertising. By limiting the free limo rides to people having a 50th wedding anniversary, he's probably going to pay for one, maybe two, limo rides per year? If that. People don't stay married anymore.
Posted by Nethie on 03/05/10 at 08:14 AM
The secret's in the sauce, or so they say.
Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 03/05/10 at 09:27 AM
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