Just What is An Ambulance?
Topic: Perplexed
I don’t see one anymore Or do I just miss it lately?

I refer to the siren-wailing AUV-type funeral vehicle marked as “ambulance.” This isn’t a hearse, a vehicle used to convey the dead to the grave. It is a vehicle that transports the dead from the hospital, or any venue of death, to a funeral home or any place where the departed is placed for viewing.

Egad, have wordsmiths for memorial homes found a new term to discombobulate the living?

I had to run to Webster, which says an ambulance is “a vehicle equipped for transporting the injured or sick.” I turned to Wikipedia’s “disambiguation,” but I had no luck either.

Could anyone enlighten? Webster or Wikipedia could be outdated, for all I know.

Well, perhaps the offending memorial parlor (is it related to a beauty parlor?) has reconsidered its practice to call its special vehicle an “ambulance.” Otherwise, some people might begin, for convenience, to use a funeral “ambulance” to transport the injured or sick to the hospital.

Excuse me, please, while I prepare for a Halloween Party, a synonym for “booze” to us drinkers.