Even the standard casket size has grown from 24 inches to about 27 inches. Davis said the typical size changed about 15 years ago as people became increasingly overweight and obese. "When we first ...

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.

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 ...

A standard casket across the pond is 24 - 27 inches ... A few years back, The Independent reported that obese Scottish people were having to be buried rather than cremated as their bodies were ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With America’s growing obesity problem showing no sign ... Next up are their 33in and 35in-wide caskets to address the needs of people of 350-550 pounds. Then the third band of coffins measure ...