With over 30 per cent of Americans officially classified as obese, Indiana-based ... Our smallest casket is 2ft 4in wide and is suitable for people who weighed up to 25 stone.

Obese Scots are having to be buried rather ... has warned an increasing number of Scottish people need US-style caskets, which can be almost a metre wide and too large for most crematoriums.

By contrast, only 3.7 percent of the people in Japan report as obese. I keep reading about how casket manufacturers are increasingly needing to produce more of what some are calling "supersize ...

What happens to our bodies when we die can be something that we would rather not think about. However, for some, curiosity outweighs the feeling of not wanting to know and if the videos on YouTube ...

A crematorium has installed a new £12,000 lift table to handle wider coffins for obese people. Newcastle-under ... place able to deal with bigger caskets. The Staffordshire council said it ...

NZ Funeral Directors Association president Tony Garing said the size of the standard coffin had increased as obesity rates soared. “Caskets are getting wider to accommodate people, so it is the ...

In Snohomish County cases investigated last year, the medical examiner provided the weight of 326 people, with 84 adults considered obese based ... bought custom-sized caskets, and the family ...

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Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council said it could not accommodate the funerals of 15 overweight people at Bradwell crematorium ... able to deal with bigger caskets. The Staffordshire council ...