That's because you're missing the point.
She died because despite getting help she still continued on with her eating habit. She was obviously one of those people who despite their protestations to the contrary are actually not prepared to give up their habit/addiction.
She was given all the help she needed to slim down and save her own life but instead chose Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Food is a secondary factor in this thread, it could quite easily have been cigarettes or drugs that she craved and sent people out to get despite being in hospital receiving treatment for the consequences of her lifestyle.
She is not one of the worst people to have lived -just one of the stupidest. You don't do that to yourself, be given an chance of salvation and throw it back into the faces of those trying to help you unless you are chronically stupid.
Not at all, I got the point, my point is that the help wasn't correct.
I don't know what help is correct in these situations.
Stupidity and mental illness are two very different things. Some would say that Elvis wasn't a stupid man, yet by all accounts he effectively ate himself to death.
I guess unless you have experienced the very odd phenomenon of something inside you compelling you to do something you absolutely know is bad for you yet the compulsion is so strong that it takes an incredible amount of willpower (which some people in more dire situations than my own may not possess) to stop yourself from doing it, then perhaps you can't even empathise.
I don't feel scorn towards her, ultimately I feel sorry for her. I feel sorry that the solution offered was surgery, I feel sorry that her family were so misguided that they didn't stop her, I feel sorry that nobody on a busy ward noticed their patient scoffing their way through so much KFC (huge buckets are hard to hide when the only way to dispose of them is in the hospital bins themselves. And most of all, I feel sorry for her that she wasn't able to exercise that self control most people take for granted.
Clearly, it WAS her own fault, but to just say she was a stupid woman is dismissing the whole issue in a Sun/Daily Mail fashion and not even trying to understand the issue, just using it has a laughing post / soap box (matched to the appropriate papers above), which personally I struggle with when its somebody's death we are talking about.
EDIT: Fine a heart attack then, whichever, the method of death is irrelevant, I missed that when I skim read the "article" on the Sun website. TBQH if she had a heart attack she may have been going to have one anyway, somebody of that size is always at massive risk when undergoing anaesthetic.
I am not suggesting sympathy, I have just been on this forum for quite a while now and am slowly getting sick of threads which allow people to vent some unknown spleen of hatred towards people who damage themselves and who have had absolutely no effect on the people who posts lives whatsoever. The posts are always full of one sided, not thought through arguments with no attempt to empathise whatsoever and it always just seems like they are an open way for people to pour some derision onto another human being (that they don't even know) and to feel a bit high and mighty if only for a few moments.
EDIT 2: And yes, I know that if you want to be very pedantic and regurgitate what the papers use as their reason for publishing these "articles", then indirectly she did effect your lives by putting pressure on the NHS. But its a very flimsy to back up the reasoning of actually hating this woman. If she had never existed, the difference to the NHS wouldn't have been noticeable to you, and ultimately the NHS agreed to do her surgery as it was, I imagine, the cheaper option rather than the better one.
