I cried for the Pallbearers who had to carry the coffin and that fat ass inside.
My brother-in law was just about that size when he passed away before he hit 50 years old.
His wife was in a state of shock and vulnerable to the undertakers as the business had buried both parents, grand parents.
A month after the elaborate Italian Funeral she told me something very shocking, the management came to her 6 hours before the viewing and told her the casket she ordered for $6,000.00 was too small for a man of his size and if she wanted open viewing she had to pony up $3,000 more. They did tell her that if she insisted on the cheap casket it would have to remain closed because they would have to dislocate his shoulders and hips, perhaps even amputate his limbs.
His Aunties about 20 of them first generation Americans went insane so they gathered up the money so they could get him into an open coffin and look at his dead body for 6 hours and wail like paid mourners.
I think that is what happend to Ted, there was no way with the time they had to find a coffin the size of a Piano crate, find a huge hearse and dig the grave wider.
That is my take on why a closed casket for Ted.
