Family Angry Over 500-Pound Woman's Burial

ChannelCincinnati ^ | 10/02/03 | ChannelCincinnati

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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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[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.

[SF Republican]

Something must be done about all of this Yea, some fat people should learn to take responsibility for their actions.

[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!

[pierrem15]

ROFLMAO!

Especially since the sanitation workers are on strike here in Chicago.

[Ingtar]

Batesville MS. not Indiana.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Something? How about these people start exercising a little self discipline or suck it up and take the consequences?

[Ingtar]

And I wonder if they would not pay enough for a bigger one, or pay for the two plots it was likely to take.

[radiohead]

But would it have fit into a standard size vault?

Nope. I don't know if it was here on FR or elsewhere that I read that the funeral industry is responding to the problem of larger dead Americans. They have to resize the vault, the hole and the casket. Apparently over a certain weight you can't even be cremated because the incinerator won't handle the weight, while some of those below this threshold are opting to be cremated rather than pay the additional charges for outsized caskets, vaults, etc.

All of this is creating a nice little profit center for them.

More than you wanted to know? : )

[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...

[Ronaldus Magnus]

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.

I'm sorry to hear about your friend. It sounds like she needs to find another doctor (or more likely, another anesthesiologist).

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