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Family Angry Over 500-Pound Woman's Burial
ChannelCincinnati ^
| 10/02/03
| ChannelCincinnati
Posted on 10/02/2003 2:18:50 PM PDT by LuLuLuLu
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:26:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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NORWOOD, Ohio -- A local woman was laid to rest recently, but her family says she's not at peace.
Barbara Norris of Norwood died last week at age 63. Norris weighed more than 500 pounds, so her children were concerned from the beginning about making sure her casket was big enough, WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Sheree Paolello reported.
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To: twinzmommy
,,, bingo! "What's eating Gilbert Grape?" Thanx for that! It would have come to me at 3,37am or maybe 4,52am sometime over the next week or so [LOL].
To: LuLuLuLu
Liposuction?
To: LuLuLuLu
Liposuction?
To: E Rocc
Some of our more suspicious employees
Ooops....superstitious not suspicious...though I guess they were that too, in a way.
-Eric
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posted on
10/02/2003 2:55:10 PM PDT
by
E Rocc
(If God had wanted us to think for ourselves, he'd have given us each our very own brain)
To: tracer
"Batesville Casket Company, Batesville, Indiana......"
Ever seen one of their tractor trailers? On the back is written, "Drive Safely - Heaven Can Wait".
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To: shaggy eel
It's one of my personal favorite movies.
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To: MineralMan
,,, "What's eating Gilbert Grape?", "On golden pond", "Fried green tomatoes", "Forest Gump" and "Driving Miss Daisy" are some of my favourite films. Timeless.
To: Saundra Duffy
This really is becoming a problem. There was a news report the other night that said many folks are too big for the diagnostic equipment, too (MRIs, CAT scanners, etc). They literally can't use them.
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posted on
10/02/2003 3:01:38 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: Go Gordon
better to be judged by twelve than carried by eighteen.
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posted on
10/02/2003 3:05:03 PM PDT
by
eyes_only
(DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG UNDER PENALTY OF LAW)
To: Saundra Duffy
As one who recently moved to a normal size casket, I must say that something CAN be done about this. Believe me, I was headed for a similar size casket myself, I was 3/5 of the way there!
It's not easy but it can be done. Eating less and more exercise. Yes, it can be done, despite the protestations that will come from many who read this. But stay away from the fad diets like the low-fat ones. Just cut the junk out of your diet and eat plenty of natural foods like meat, fish, vegetables, berries, cheese, nuts and olive oil. And exercise, exercise, exercise.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a great movie. A cult classic. That movie deals with a woman who is similarly obese. Not an easy way to live. You can have sympathy for her but your sympathy will not help her. In fact, it will likely encourage her to make no positive changes in her life.
When I started climbing towards 300 pounds and losing all my energy, I had people starting to joke about me getting so fat. It definitely was a motivating factor in me reversing the trend and now I am giving many of them a hard time (in a good natured way) because I am now slimmer than most of them! And getting slimmer still.
We do not have both sides of the story here. It could be that the family did not want to pay for a special order casket and the funeral home was doing their best to accomodate them with the largest casket they had in stock. We just do not know and we should not jump to the conclusion that the funeral home was being inconsiderate or unprofessional. They could have been in a no-win situation with this. We're talking 500 pounds of woman here!
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posted on
10/02/2003 3:05:55 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(212.8 (-87.2) Homestretch to 200)
To: LuLuLuLu
Looks like a good story line for Six Feet Under.
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posted on
10/02/2003 3:07:19 PM PDT
by
Spyder
(Just another day in Paradise)
To: Nathaniel Fischer; Interesting Times
The thought was just creeping into my (admittedly slow) thought process when I caught IT's post and your (NF's) reply. OMG, nearly peed myself!
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posted on
10/02/2003 3:09:15 PM PDT
by
Don Carlos
(El que no le gusta vino es un amimal.)
To: LuLuLuLu
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posted on
10/02/2003 3:09:24 PM PDT
by
eabinga
To: eabinga
A good burial at sea would have done the trick.
56
posted on
10/02/2003 3:14:01 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Someday soon, you or someone you care about will be imprisoned by the US government)
To: Saundra Duffy
I'm sorry about your friend but when people get too large for surgery it is probably kinder not to attempt than to operate anyway and have them die due to failure of an incision to heal.
To: radiohead
Apparently over a certain weight you can't even be cremated because the incinerator won't handle the weight, No problem -- just do it in two batches.
To: LuLuLuLu
I'd say just blenderize her at some local pet food processor and pump the muck into drums. Either that or cash in on the $0.50/lb. rate for offal.
To: MineralMan
That's "Whatever Happened To Baby Gilbert Grape"
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posted on
10/02/2003 3:28:46 PM PDT
by
whereasandsoforth
(tagged for migratory purposes only)
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