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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.

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Why would you bring up an unrelated case to justify the treatment of this woman at her burial? Disgusting. While most obese people are that way because of lack of exercise and overeating, many, particularly older ones like this woman gain weight due to medications and health problems unrelated to their weight. I don't know that one could puff up to 500 lbs, but my guess is she had a combination of problems. You don't go as long as 63 years if you've been 500 lbs for most of them.