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Subscribe to RSSA Pennsylvania man who died at age 88 was buried Saturday -- but not before a stop at Burger King on the way to the cemetery for a Whopper Jr.
The York Daily Record reported that David S. Kime Jr. of West York loved those burgers -- along with other fast food -- so his family and friends followed the hearse through the drive-through window at the Manchester Burger King. The manager said 40 Whopper Jr. burgers were prepared, including one for Kime, who died Jan. 20.
"He always lived by his own rules," Linda Phiel, one of Kime's three daughters, told the Daily Record. "His version of eating healthy was the lettuce on the Whopper Jr."
Phiel said her 5-foot-tall father was a borderline diabetic for years and had pacemaker, but he began eating what he wanted after his wife died 25 years ago, according to the Daily Record.
"He was not prejudiced," Phiel told the Daily Record. "He would go to any fast food place anyone invited him to."
After a while, she said, she gave up lecturing him: "When you're 88 years old, I guess you've earned the right to do what you want to do."
A photo in the Daily Record shows Phiel placing her dad's last burger atop his casket amid a spray of flowers.
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He lived longer than most "prudent" men!
This wasn't newsworthy!
Now a better story to this would be >>> If He opened the casket from the smell! & started to eat it in front of everybody!!!!!! LOL!
I knew a lady that I was a volunteer for and she ended up in the nursing home and her daughter brought a bottle of wine in to celebrate her birthday and the nurses told her she couldn't have it because it might interfere with her meds. She told them who cares, I going to die in a few days anyhow , so I am going be happy and drink it while I can and she did, about half of the bottle. 3 cheers for her.
Whooper Jr's are nothing more than a little thin hamburg on a bigger bun, so really if anything it would have been the bun with mustard and ketchup that would have hurt him, the burger is half the size of the bun. When you're that old might as well do what you want and eat what you want. Mine will be a coney with onions! Sure hope the hot dog stand is open when my time comes.
I can't believe this actually warranted any place on any news outlet. Is this really what america has come to?
If you LQQK UP a few above you, It's what I said! but with a twist!
Well, every story doesn't have to be about America's financial woes or the war. Perhaps you shouldn't click on these stories and look for heavier topics. As for America covering stories like this; we're hardly the only ones. Europe alone covers some ridiculously dumb stories (take a look at some papers from England).
Just think how long he could have lived if he had ate a healthy diet. Then again he might have died ten years sooner from depression.
Holly... "Just different ways of looking at things." Amen, thank you.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein
i want to eat a vagina burger with lot of hair and mayo on my last day.
Off to bed sport! School tomorrow!
Your comment just told your age & maturity! LOL
I want to be buried with that cute , little redhead from the Wendy's commercials.
at 88 im glad to read someone got it 'there way'.if i get there im going to try and remember this.
Hmm, yes. Nothing says 'rebel' like eating fast food ;)
In the life that all creatures live, there is a time appointed where the journey will END, however creatures can avoid an earlier departure by making good decisions, such as running, not walking around the BEND, and when one makes it, a positive message it will SEND, even to those that only themselves they fend, or the others whom their families they also do TEND.... Whether running from danger such as that of a TRAP, or flying from a tree root where the bees make their sap, or like an inch worm hiding inside a log GAP, or a baby joey in mommas pouch taking a NAP, all creatures strive to live life to the fullest, even if it makes them take a bad RAP, such as Raccoons turning over garbage cans, and digging thru all of the CRAP....The person in the story was buried with a Whopper due to last minute THINKING, the kind where you react without even BLINKING, while the other respect payers were standing around the water hole, and DRINKING, this guy loved a computer and was not done LINKING, and he knew he might not make it out because his hopes were SINKING, now the man is free, and to everyone around him, they can't stop WINKING.... Good for this man, but it is too bad his life did STOP, but as Rank Stranger would say all that can be said now is hibbity, dibbity, BOP, and a pee, pie, po, POP!!!!
Just when I thought American idiots couldn't get any more stupid this comes along. A NATION of RETARDS. 85% of you morons didn't know your payroll taxes would increase January 2013 but you can name every winner of American Idol for the past five years. There is basically no hope anymore. You have reached the pinnacle of stupidity and ignorance. Congratulations.
Chillax, Crasher. Have a Whopper.
...as if mourning the loss of a loved one were not hard enough, one has to wonder why in the world such a moment could be used to "commercialize" the gut wrenching, fast food industry which is slowly killing anyone who partakes of it. How incredibly sad.
This is awesome in all the right ways. When I die, take me to Chuck E Cheese, and toss me in the ball bit to swim around.
That's can't be a health hazard... right?
Awe Ive worked with the elderly for well over 20 plus years. gosh let them eat what they want especially at this age. we can all learn from the elderly if we take the time to sit an listen to what they say. their stories about their life can teach you so much. they are all so precious. may GOD let this precious man rest in peace with his wife in heaven. as for the burger... well hope you get one in heaven....
Good story. A stop at the local buffalo wing joint would be my request. Throw me in the incinerator with some hot, extra wet buffalo wings. Pure poison I know but damn tasty. I had to have one of my dogs put down this weekend so on the way I stopped and got her a glazed donut. She loved it and her last hour on this earth was a good one.
My Mother has one request that is a bit odd. She wants us to play the song "Another One Bites the Dust" at her service. I frown upon the thought of it but that is what she wants. No tears she said, just laughter and that will get a chuckle from everyone that knows us. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Well, might as well take one with you because who knows, maybe they will be outlawed in the future by the health police. Good thing he wasn't in NY and his last wish was a 20 oz soda!
I almost choked on my 32 ounce soda when I read that. Too funny.
Yours truly, Not a New Yorker.
Of all the hamburger joints in the world, Burger King is my favorite. But running the funeral procession through the drive thru is the sickest thing I've ever heard.
Anyone who would order a Whopper Jr. is brainless. It's simply a hamburger with everything. Save your money and order one and you will see its exactly the same thing.
whopper jr?
how come they didn't go with the regular one?
There are plenty of health nuts out there who eat rabbit food all their lives and die before 60.
When it's your time, it's your time.
"His version of eating healthy was the lettuce on the Whopper Jr." he made it past 80 when the average life expectancy of a US male is - what? - early 70's? Let the dude eat what he wants!
Nico, did you really say jeans? Why do you care what is in someone's pants? I can only assume you meant to say genes.
I do believe genetics have a lot of effect. Had a great uncle that was told right after his 65th birthday by his doctor to stop drinking the Irish whiskey. The uncle kept drinking his 3 shots a day for over 40 years more before he died. While one of my grandmothers never touched a drop and died before her 104th birthday.
Hold the pickle hold the lettuce special orders don't upset All we ask it that you let us serve it your way. Didn't say whether he wanted fries with that order. It is a flame broiled burger, maybe he could have waited and cooked it himself.
How much did Burger King have to pay media outlets to run this story after their horse meat scandal?