Shame on the school for keeping the body for so long without even trying to preserve it... and after rejecting it too! Most coroners don't keep bodies in their offices for that long without chilling them and replacing the blood with preservatives to keep the bacteria at bay. Heck, I even bet the U.S. prison system sends dead prisoners back to their families sooner than that, and with their bodies preserved too.
Shame on them, also, for (more than likely) disadvantaging students by not teaching them how to deal with fat bodies. Let's just hope every body that lands on these students' surgery/autopsy tables is thin as a twig, if the school isn't going to do anything about their curriculum's flaws.
What's next, refusing medical care to anybody you think is too heavy? Is weight-ism the new racism?
Not only that, but instead of immediately saying no, they waited until the corpse rotted before returning it? Utterly disgusting, unfeeling to the relatives, callous and unkind response to a charitable act.
Weightism is alive and well in America. I see it daily.
I lost 76 pounds in 11 months and still have more than 100 yet to go.
With the high percentage of overweight Americans, wouldn't they be all over this rather than cast it aside?? This isn't the first obese human to pass away and will not be the last. I suppose we'd rather just throw these students to the wolves when their job comes around and leave them to sloppily tend to an overweight/obese person while scratching their heads.
What idiots. That's all I've got to say.
badly decayed in two weeks, owing to the fat layers that don't preserve very well. Sad, but George was dead and never knew what happened to his flesh. Whether planted in the ground, cremated, or left for the vultures, it's all the same. When life ends, all that is left is decay in some manner.
Sorry to tell you, but decay begins within five minutes of the time the blood stops circulating. The process is rapid, increased by the bacteria already boiling in the body, and the 90 degree plus temperature of the human body. Within a couple of hours the whole thing is beginning to turn to jelly. The family obviously didn't "follow up" on old George's wishes very carefully, did they. Of course the school could have, should have, treated Geroge with more respect. But, they didn't, and there is nothing we can do about that. He is now safely in a "URN", about 1 1/2 pounds of ash and bits of bone and teeth. So long, Geroge, rest well!!!!
Seems whether alive or in death this person had people labeled him. My father was over 200 pounds, but was not lazy. Far from it. At the age of 91, yes 91 he was on the roof painting our house, did gardening, maintained our home inside and outside. He had a heart attack at 92 and died 2 weeks before he turned 95.
Many handicapped people gain weight because they can't walk or bedal a bicycle or even row a boat.
If someone is used to eating 2000 calories a day then gets injured, it is very hard to cut that intake in half. The person will always feel hungry.
It takes month for the stomach to shrink enough. The interim months or years are very difficult. Gastricsurgery can circumvent this problem but it comes with its own set of problems as well.
I ment foul, if he was just going to be cut open and stuff like that
Maybe they should send the body to a glue factory where they handle horses and have the equipment to deal with heavy objects.