We did this at my high school, but instead of faking deaths, I dressed as the Grim Reaper and pulled a student out of class every hour and a half (which is closer to the actual frequency of deaths caused by drinking and driving,) who returned a few minutes later with their face painted white. They read facts about drunk driving accidents between classes. I doubt it had any effect on anyone.
MADD may have started out with good intentions, but it is nothing more than a group of moralists who try to force their neo-prohibitionist agenda on everyone. They're the ones who help set up counseling for those who abuse alcohol and try to brand anyone who has ever had more than a sip of communion wine as an alcoholic and force them into their rehab programs. They're the reason that drunk driving statistics are so terrifying because it's recorded as an alcohol-related accident if the driver blows even a .01, if anyone in the car had anything to drink, if a sober driver hits a pedestrian who had been drinking, or if anyone tests positive for any drug; one top of that the statistic arbitrarily adds something like 10 or 15 percent to account for drunk drivers who aren't caught.
MADD do little good, they masquerade as saviors of kids while they advance their extremist agenda unchallenged.
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