To: Marauder
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? : )
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: radiohead
Apparently over a certain weight you can't even be cremated because the incinerator won't handle the weight... Nonsense. Just be cremated in two or more pieces.
61 posted on
10/02/2003 3:31:06 PM PDT by
Salman
(Mickey Akbar)
To: radiohead
More than you wanted to know?Not really that so much, but the visuals are killing me. :)
70 posted on
10/02/2003 4:22:58 PM PDT by
Marauder
(If God lived on earth, liberals would sue Him.)
To: radiohead
I'd be interested in reading that article.
Cremating overweight people isn't an easy thing, I'll refrain from the details, but can tell you there's a lot more to it than your average cremation!
To: radiohead
Apparently over a certain weight you can't even be cremated because the incinerator won't handle the weight...Yeah, but couldn't you be cremated in.. maybe two or three separate pieces?
99 posted on
10/03/2003 5:24:45 AM PDT by
spiffy
To: radiohead
Re: the funeral industry is responding to the problem of larger dead Americans. Well, they certainly ought to, seems like 2/3rds of Americans are obese -- that's the undertakers future market!
109 posted on
10/03/2003 5:51:39 AM PDT by
Cronos
(W2004)
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