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[Saundra Duffy]

This is really sad. I know someone who is really heavy. She has cancer. Doctors told her they cannot operate on her for the cancer because she's too fat. Something must be done about all of this. It's just awful.

[shadowman99]

It's a good day to be an earthworm!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Add a couple bronze handles, some satin, and problem solved.

[bandleader]

This is ABSOLUTELY REPREHENSIBLE!!!

[palmer]

She may have been a big woman, but she was a good woman.

A fat check for the daughter of the fat chick.

[Marauder]

They could've used a piano crate. That presumably would've been large enough, depending upon where the lady carried most of her weight.

But would it have fit into a standard size vault?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I stood there and watched them pour dirt on my mom knowing that that casket was not closed properly.

And you said NOTHING? What is wrong with you, you fool!

[Dog Gone]

"Her face was, like, all squished up," she said.

She must have had a face that was wider than her shoulders.

[Interesting Times]

For Pete's sake.

Don't undertakers know how to use a chainsaw anymore?

[Billthedrill]

"They asked me to lay on the top of the casket to try to get the lock down," Moreno said.

Just damn...

[tracer]

The funeral director simply was thinking outside of the box.....

[FreePaul]

When people get to be too large their "friends" and relatives should stop trucking food to them. If they have to walk far enough to get fed they may not get too large to forage. I know people who are grossly overweight and I fell sorry for them. If they want me to bring them food they are going to be disappointed.

[Servant of the 9]

Gravitas maybe, but no one that fat has Dignitas.

So9

[george wythe]

because many caskets are made in Batesville, Ind., and Aurora, Ind., a specially ordered casket can be shipped to local funeral homes within 24 to 36 hours, Paolello reported.

Correct, but would the family be willing to pay for the custom-made casket plus the delivery charges?

[Go Gordon]

"My mom had a lot of dignity," she said.

Yep, 500 pounds worth.

[SC DOC]

Should have called Goliath

[Destructor]

Casket? We're talking Piano case here!

[My Favorite Headache]

I would have gone postal on the funeral director on the spot. UN-Real!!!!!!!!

[plain talk]

I don't know how much sympathy the family deserves on this. The funeral home people probably gambled on giving her some dignity by placing her in a standard large size casket that would be most economic for the family (rather than a custom built one that might look unusual). Do we know that the family offered to pay for a custom built casket that would positively fit her? OK, so the funeral home gambled wrong. They probably haven't had much experience with 500 lb people.

Rather than whining now that she's too fat to fit in the coffin, the family would have been better served years ago helping her address the root cause that resulted in her premature death at 63. How does someone even get to be 500 lbs? sheesh.