Illinois Funeral Home Gets Approval to Serve Alcohol at Funerals

It's not something that we think about often, but when you DO think of how you want your loved ones to remember you after you pass, how would you like them to commemorate your death? Would you prefer something intimate and private or would you like to go out with a bang? I mean, they don't call it a "celebration of life" for nothing.

If you're one of those types of people who has already written in your will that you want everyone that shows up for your wake/funeral to show up in Hawaiian shirts, demanded that there's no tears and you left money for them to throw a big party afterwards then this funeral home in Wheeling, Illinois might be the perfect place to put you to rest.

According to the Daily Herald, the Kolssak Funeral home was granted a new liquor license; allowing them to serve alcohol and food during wakes and funerals. The CFO of the funeral home, David Kolssak says, "Right now we’re pioneering, we’re out there looking far out, thinking these things could change the life celebrations at a funeral home. The spirit of this is not to do nothing but help people at a time of need.”

The funeral home will now be allowed to serve alcohol to mourning family and friends from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.