Obesity has become a significant concern of modern society, and the effects of obesity are already impacting our healthcare industries in the United States.
But how is the growing obesity rate impacting the deathcare industry?
What does it mean if you are fat and need a funeral? How do funeral directors have to change practices to accommodate the growing number of obese corpses?
Needless to say, it means a greater cost to arrange a funeral for a ‘larger than average’ size person.
I use the term “average” loosely these days, as to how we define an average-size person has to be redefined when over one-third (*41.9%) of Americans are categorized as “clinically obese.”
When we add to this the growing childhood obesity rates, with just over 12.5 million young people aged 2–19 years already classified as obese, we are at an epoch when “average” size is no longer the standard it once was.
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