Double Wide Grave Dug For Guy Who Died Weighing Half A Ton!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:08 am

A half-ton man has died of heart failure despite a rescue attempt
that saw his bedroom wall demolished so he could be taken to hospital
on the back of a lorry.

The 47-year-old from Juarez, northern Mexico, was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital.

An enormous coffin had to be constructed and José Luis Garza's burial was delayed as cemetery workers enlarged the grave.

Mr Garza, who weighed 70stone 10lb, had appealed on television for
help tackling his weight problem - following the example of the world's
fattest man, fellow Mexican Manuel Uribe of nearby Monterrey.

Mr Garza said he had always struggled with his weight but fell into a
cycle of depression and overeating nine months ago after his parents
died within two weeks of each other.

He had been bedridden for four months.

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Mr Garza's condition deteriorated over the weekend as he struggled
to breathe and eat. Relatives criticised officials for failing to move
him to a hospital before he became critically ill.

'If he had received support at the time he asked for it, he would still be with us,' said his brother Pedro.

State officials argued there was little they could do.

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'The attention he would have received at a hospital would have been
the same he received at home,' said a spokesman for the state health
department. 'Moving a patient of that magnitude is very difficult.'

About 150 friends and family waited for more than four hours at a
cemetery while carpenters built a special coffin for Mr Garza's burial.

'The family wanted to cremate him but there wasn't an adequate oven for
someone his size,' funeral home worker Maribel Cantu said.

'He is the biggest man we have buried.'

Mr Garza's coffin arrived at the cemetery in a white van and 20 relatives and workers lowered it to the ground.

Mr Uribe, whose record weight of 87stone 12lb earned him a place in the
2008 Guinness Book of Records, had tried to help Garza by sending him
kiwis, grapefruit, pears and a protein supplement.

Mr Uribe's fiancée, Claudia Solis, delivered the food on Friday evening.