Posted on 03/04/2007 8:00:14 PM PST by FARS
Or do what Kissinger suggests... NEVER do an interview Unless it is Live To Air!
Can you go public in what hapenned to open your eyes? Or Freepmail?
Great question and a good match - except they stink so much not even they can stay near each other.
This movie was already made, and the first version was excellent: http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Moore-Hates-America-Wilson/dp/B0006PWM1O
Bump!
Spam isn't 'raw', it's cooked processed ham.
It's oddly comforting to be part of a "horde".
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
:')
And on a related story:
Date posted online: Monday, March 05, 2007
Living bigger, dying bigger
REGION: Funeral industry adjusts to weighty issues
BY CHRISTINE KRALY
ckraly@nwitimes.com
219.762.1397, ext. 2225
It's no secret that we're getting larger, especially in the region. Research shows obesity levels in Indiana and Illinois inching near 30 percent.
And as people are living bigger they are, in turn, dying bigger. As loved ones grieve, the growing trend may be affecting not only their hearts, but also their wallets.
"We have prepared to handle larger bodies because it seems as if there are more large people out there," said Martin Moeller of Valparaiso's Moeller Funeral Home.
In recent years, local businesses have been equipping themselves to handle the situation with additional manpower, as well as specialized tools. Moeller has purchased a special embalming table designed to handle larger bodies, and up to 1,000 pounds.
The new equipment is expensive, Moeller said, but customers have not yet had to shoulder the burden.
"At this point, we haven't charged extra for that type of thing," he said. "But I can't say that we won't in the future. As it takes more specialized equipment, that time may come. It seems to be heading in that direction."
Deaths of obese people affect the funeral industry's prearrangement services, too, says Michael St. Pierre, president of the National Funeral Directors Association and director of an Indianapolis funeral home.
"If you prearrange a funeral and if you need an oversized casket, that puts us in between a rock and a hard place," he said. "You have to fit the family's needs."
Often, the need is for a larger, more expensive casket.
St. Pierre said the charge to the family would not be much, but estimated that oversized caskets run about 10 percent additional wholesale compared with a standard size.
Caskets can cost anywhere from $1,000 to nearly $10,000. Especially combined with other needed arrangements, any added fee could hurt a family's pocketbook.
"There are sometimes where the family doesn't have a choice," said Josh Krause, owner of Portage's Rees Funeral Home. Sometimes, choices in placement are eliminated altogether.
"It's pretty rare for oversized caskets to get into mausoleums because of when they were built," St. Pierre said. Cemeteries, too, often don't have the grounds for larger caskets, St. Pierre added.
Purchasing additional space, often a second plot, may double a family's burial expenses. St. Pierre estimates, too, that a larger burial vault could cost an additional 25 percent to 40 percent.
Vaults at Elmwood Cemetery in Hammond, for example, range from $280 to $2,300. "That would affect the family's bottom line," St. Pierre said.
St. Pierre said addressing cases where weight is an issue "requires a gentle frankness, with the understanding that you're trying to help them through the grieving process."
The same is true of death papers, said Doris Amling with the Porter County coroner's office. She said obesity has been listed on a growing number of lab reports.
"It's still a tender spot," she said. "You don't want to embarrass a family by putting that on a death certificate."
"It's not business as usual," St. Pierre said.
BREAKOUT
Prevalence of obesity-related health problems (in percentages)
Diabetes:
U.S.: 7.3
Ind.: 8.3
Ill.: 7.9
Hypertension (high blood pressure):
U.S.: 25.5
Ind.: 26.2
Ill.: 25.5
Arthritis:
U.S.: 27
Ind.: 29.3
Ill.: 24.8
High cholesterol:
U.S.: 35.6
Ind.: 38
Ill.: 36.2
Heart disease:
U.S.: 6.5
Ind.: 6.8
Ill.: 6
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Copyright © 2007 nwi.com
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Beautiful -- the left is exposing his lies!
And if Her Thighness Shrillery becomes President, look for the Fairness Doctrine to be re-established, attempts to shut down conservative churches and parachurch organizations, attempts to silence conservative church leaders, unjustified IRS audits of conservatives and their groups, increased Union thuggery against anti-Clintonista dissent, and other Stalinist tactics that the pro-Left press will ignore or defend as perfectly ok, just as it did when Bubba was in power.
Hmmmm .... don't know .... didn't know he was even married or I did but forgot ... not the biggest thing on my hit parade .....
Dune??????
Yes, that Harkonnen.
never let the truth get in the way of a good story...
moore shoud have that tatooed on himself......
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