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If I thought that just 50% of the population was opaque, however, that WOULD cause me a little concern . . . =8-o

http://dict.die.net/opaque/

XYZ - Quite the contrary. Lyric was pointing out that currently there is an obesity problem with the United States. A hundred years ago, the average lifestyle didn't allow for the same sedentary existence the populace currently has, so therefore, the morgue designers didn't have to factor in that there would be a steady clientele of morbidly obese corpses.

Are you implying that 100 years ago, there was a serious problem with 50% of the population being opaque?!

In 100 years when someone comes to a website such as this it will prolly be called "Obesity" instead of "Opacity."

Addendum to my previous post above.

What a lot of us need to realize as well, is that historically (previous to 1960)
Lifetstyles did not allow for sedentary life styles.
We didn't have to consider obesity the same way we do now, because life back then did not allow for it the same way it does now.
It affected 1-5% of the population where now we are looking at close to 50%.

This is not to say that it didn't happen, but it was much less common. If you were sedentary and obese it usually stemmed from illness, rather than a lifestyle choice.

Not all Morgues are step up with these types of units anymore.
Some of them have large walk-in coolers that the staff use to push the gurney's into and line them up for easier retrival.

Some have these body slide shelves and a walk in cooler. The body slide being for person's who require identification, work that is on going in the autopsy... etc.

Even in the science of death they have had to make adustments for the unhealthly lifestyles and genetic anomolyes of the living.

How can a large boned dead person fit in
that morgue?Old or New morgue?

If you could see inside them all, it would not be nearly as interesting. Like with anything i suppose. Beautiful shot

Naw take a second looksie Rob, there may still be potential for ya after all!

NICE PLACE TOO SLEEP

ITS A ROB O METER ITS AT ZERO

Anyone ever seen the movie version of Hamlet with Kenneth Brannaugh....?

maybe its just me but i think those chairs look incedibley cool,top site by the way

I hear Japanese businessmen pay good $$ for rooms like that

GIR!

Ahhh! Bees!