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Mercedes Norris said the funeral director's explanation is not enough to comfort her family.

But the six figure, out of court settlement certainly will..

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For your reading pleasure...
in Ohio a jury awarded $3,000,000 to the family of a man who was both fat and a heavy smoker. When he died of a heart attack, the family claimed that his doctor didn't do enough to make him lose weight. The jury bought it.

If the doctor isn't bankrupt already on that one, he will be when he tries to purchase malpractice insurance next year.

There is also an association of "Fat People Who Take Offense at Being Called Fat", or somesuch, that would have sued the doctor for harrassing them about their weight.

And I have no doubt that this woman ate only 800 calories and walked 5 miles a day. Obesity is hormonal and inherited, you know.