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Originally Posted by Cowperson
It's hard not to be cruel sometimes. Seriously.
She earned the politically correct public tributes but privately in our addled minds . . . . . we're all wonderng how big the coffin has to be and glad we're not pallbearers.
Cowperson
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While Cowperson and Silver took some flack for poking fun at Rita's weight, they weren't the only ones.
In a hand written letter from Rita herself:
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Originally Posted by Rita MacNeil
Upon my death, I would want to be cremated immediately, my ashes to be placed in my tea room teapot. Two, if necessary.
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http://globalnews.ca/news/500177/rit...t-in-a-teapot/
She had a good sense of humor about her weight (as a person with a weight problem myself I understand having good humor about it; mind you I do think it's easier to be abnormally underweight than overweight).
A friend of mine posted a story to Facebook that after Rita sang the national anthem during the Jays/Phillies World Series a Philadelphia sports writer wrote that they should have brought her out on a forklift. Rita's response was "if I'm ever asked to sing the national anthem at a Blue Jays game again, I want to be brought out on a forklift, just because".
So I guess my point is, you can forgive the weight jokes, if they're funny Rita would have appreciated them.