The latest sign that the West is fucked is the news out of Sweden that obesity is so common that crematoriums are now needing to build much larger furnaces to deal with record-sized corpses.
As reported by Sputnik:
In order to tackle this problem, up to 15 crematories across Sweden have installed wider ovens or expanded existing ones, according to the Swedish Cemetery and Crematoria Association (SKKF), the trade association for funeral activities.
“When you build a new building today, you build with larger furnaces”, cemetery manager Lars Öhrn in Borås explained to national broadcaster SVT. “As we get bigger, larger coffins are needed for cremation. This is where the problem arises”, he added.
Everyone registered in Sweden pays a compulsory funeral fee that covers cremation. However, according to SKKF, there are up to ten cases a year when cremation is not possible.
“Of course, it's tragic when it happens. But this is the reality today”, SKKF CEO Jan Olov Andersson explained. Most of the time this is due to the deceased's obesity. “What may be reasonable is for crematories to expand”, he added, stressing that efforts to solve the problem are under discussion.
According to Statistics Sweden, the average Swede has become two centimetres broader and seven kilos heavier, since the beginning of the 1980s. As the "average Swede" also includes millions of skinny refugees from the Third World, you can safely double those figures.
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