[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.

[GraniteStateConservative]

It's like a poster said-- once you can't get up to get food, stop eating.

[GOPcapitalist]

How does someone even get to be 500 lbs? sheesh.

That's a good question and one that I will never understand. I was driving through a national park a few weeks ago and drove by the entrance booth where you pay and get a map. There was a horrendously overweight "park ranger" sitting inside that must have been between 400 and 500 pounds. It was mid afternoon - about 3 pm - and she was snacking away as she worked. She slid the window open to take my money and about half of her spilled out the side - truly one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. How somebody that big could ever live with herself and CONTINUE adding to her own gluttony by constant excessive snacking is simply incomprehensible.