True. If EVERYONE is coming to a complete stop where they are that is one thing, but if it's only random people they need to pull off the roadway and not impede traffic or become a danger to other cars.
I haven't really seen flags used here unless talking about the hearse but permittable by state law here is the usage of hazard lights and that seems to be the most frequent way of showing other drivers all the vehicles that are within the procession.
The state I grew up in up in required flags on all cars in the procession. They were typically small purple flags with the word Funeral on them.
Processions here I have seen have all had orange bumper stickers on the passenger side of the windshield that say FUNERAL. But searching I see they also make flags like some people put on their cars for their favorite sports team, or an orange card than you hang on your interior mirror that says FUNERAL. However, I have only seen funeral processions in California, never taken part in one. All services I have attended have been in the chapel or other facility at the cemetery. So the only procession is within the cemetery grounds. https://www.vischerfuneralsupplies....uto-procession-items/auto-hanger-funeral-tag/
Ageee.
It's an option. There are niches at many cemeteries.
Being Catholic, while more cremations are happening, there’s still a fair amount of burials (and funeral processions) that still take place.
I'm pretty sure the departed will not care at all. It's a silly thing. Everyone dies, can you imagine the havoc that would ensue if every car they meet stopped until they went by. They only group that would possibly be upset about it would be the rest of the processions live occupants and they have no real reason to be upset about it.
Correct. They are most upset by losing the free fast pass service at Disneyland. The line for the 999 happy haunts can get pretty backed up.
Google says 56% of Americans are choosing cremation. While a majority, that's a long way from "most everyone".
Glad this thread popped back up. We had a major funeral procession last week and the Highway Patrol put out an alert about. 10 miles from church to cemetery. And the question was raised........ as it was on this thread......... about why they use the Freeway instead of surface streets. Highway Patrol said the Freeway is much safer and easier to control. The freeway route included 5 on and off ramps that needed to be controlled. The most direct surface street had nearly 100 cross streets. And cross streets typically are where funeral processions have problems. Funeral processions are only allowed from 10 am to 3 pm, during off peak traffic times, and travel at 55 mph in the slow lane. The freeway is safer, quicker, and has less of an impact on people than surface streets.
Sure, but that's not really part of this discussion. We were talking about etiquette here where entire lines of cars stop when approaching a funeral procession. That was about one individual jerk that was so entitled that he felt it was ok to cut in front of people making a turn in a procession. There is a difference. Even if the line had stopped that fool would have found a way to get around the rest of the cars and do the same thing. I don't know if it ever was a law that people stop for a funeral, but it isn't anymore and it shouldn't be except if the procession is turning into a street or the cemetery. but if they had police as an escort the police should have provided the protection for the funeral. That isn't respect it is just common sense. Something that humans have been lacking in the last half century.
