A north Georgia funeral home owner is offering a free funeral to anyone who admits they plan to drink and drive on New Year's Eve.
It's a freebie that no one has signed up to accept.
Barry Miller of McGuire Jennings Miller Funeral Home says in today's society, you have to go to the extreme sometimes to get their attention and that's we are trying to do.
Long before he opened his first funeral home, Miller lost a loved one who was killed by a drunk driver. The pain of that memory is driving his offer.
Sign this agreement admitting you plan to get behind the wheel while intoxicated on New Year's Eve, crash, and kill yourself while impaired, and McGuire Jennings Miller funeral home will give you a casket, flowers, a burial all for free.
Miller doesn't expect anyone will ever take him up on the offer.
When asked if this is just a publicity stunt, Mr. Miller says if I had not lost a family member, they'd be right. But since I have been on that side of the fence, no, I'm doing this to hopefully motivate someone to make the right decisions.
Miller has done this before in Georgia and Tennessee.
Only one person has ever expressed any interest, and that didn't last.
If anyone ever does sign up, miller's first call will be to local authorities to provide them with the name of the new year's eve celebrant officers will need to watch.
Mr. Miller says we've actually got letters from alcoholics saying hey you. I'd kind of gotten off the wagon, fallen off the wagon, and your story helped me get back on the wagon.
The sight of excessive partying that winds up behind the wheel, that's what Barry Miller really wants to bury.
