I recently attended a funeral in Chicago. The funeral home was at Peterson Avenue and Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, and the cemetery was at Rand Road and Palatine Road in Arlington Heights. There was the hearse, the immediate family’s limousine and nine cars carrying family and friends. We were told to put on our headlights and our emergency blinkers, and we were issued orange 4-inch-by-4-inch stickers that said “Funeral” to put on the passenger side of the front windshield to identify us as part of a funeral procession.
Many cars cut into the procession during the one-hour drive to the cemetery, either because they were ignorant that these cars were following a hearse, or because they were in a rush.
It’s time the funeral directors came up with a better way to identify cars in funeral processions. Maybe a flag that says “Funeral,” mounted on a suction cup, could be put on the top of each car.
