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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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in 200 years, he will be dust....and the burger will still be ready to eat....just warm it up...
So the moral of the story is, if you eat at Burger King, you're going to die. And if you eat anywhere else, you're going to die. And if you don't eat, you're going to die.
This goes along with the recent article about insurance coverage for those who smoke or are obese, do you charge them higher premiums for their choice in life or not? Or are they actually saving the insurance company money for dying sooner? With obese people, do you shame them into a better attitude and habit, on the road to better health? I personally think that with smokers and obese people (those who intentionally don't exercise or eat right), they should do whatever it takes to make them change their ways to better health, period!!!
A follow up to my comment and the point of my comment is, why encourage and support bad behavior and then expect everyone else to pay for your deliberate and selfish choices? Just because you pay for insurance, only means it is there for the unseen illnesses that come upon you, NOT the deliberately foolish ones you bring upon yourself and others. This also applies to the federal, state, county, city governments and personal decisions your family, friends and generally everyone who lives on planet earth makes!!! Why should just one person or a group of people who live a clean life and a responsible one, pay for those who choose not to live clean and responsible one? Let us just charge Mr. Underhill's American Express card (from the movie "Fletch") for every deliberate and selfish decision they all have made! That is a national or international debt, no one person or country could ever pay that off!
Wow! At the speed Burger King serves customers, can you imagine how long it took to get that funeral procession to the cemetery.
It is not as if the guy was in a hurry to go anywhere.
I wonder if he got fries with that order and Supersized them.
Humans have lost their minds. A stray cat witnessing this event would roll its eyes and wonder why we are on top of the food chain...We have no hopes of surviving an alien invasion either. They will look at just a few of our customs and wipe us out as a result! To each their own I guess...
-actually, a moving story. As a medical doctor I usually don't lecture patient's as to what they should and should not eat. It is just too bad some people can't live indefinitely.
Great story! I had an Uncle that lived to 89, was told he had lung cancer, needed treatment, refused it all. He outlived the doctor by ten years! And, had a heart attack and stroke in between all that. And, the last five years of his life, he ate nothing but sweets, cake/cupcakes/pie, ect. Long live the strong willed!!
Hurray for you! I think a big part of longevity is in the genes - I plan on holding off 'til my mom's age, who passed at 95.
I am now hungry for a Big Mac or two - w/o fries, of course - their greasy lol
Good for him!! I had a friend when I was a teenager that said why would anyone want to eat food they didn't like just so they can live longer and continue to be unsatisfied.
He died from a freak accident after falling off a horse and hitting his head just a year later. I have thought my entire life about what he said. Live life, is the lesson I learned from his simple observation.
I going to take another look at 'everything in moderation'.... He did it his way....
I understand that the burger is a "symbol", but still...live people and animals are dying from hunger...(My props in the coffin will be a watering can, bucket and shovel.)
Genetics
I had and the word is had a friend who watched everything she ate and was rail thin. She died of breast cancer before she hit 50. I eat what I want period. I am over 50
i say that we all celebrate in this mans life. he had a loving relationship over a few decades with his wife and then found the desire to live on and enjoy life to the fullest with no fear. unlike most libertards.
Aye! And eat dessert first!
why not, nonthin wrong with that,his last request, i,ll take a burger fries mikshake to with 50,s music playing{rock an roll} to go, ha ha
"His version of eating healthy was the lettuce on the Whopper Jr."
My kind of guy....
I love it . Did he have the hearse go thru the drive thru. The look on the window employee must have been priceless. I think when I die that what I,m going to do. Rent 6 hearses and have them circle the Mc D,s like wagon train. Bet there business will be slow that day.hahaha
He made the best of a bad situation, his wife's passing, health issues and apperantly enjoy it last few years, here on earth.
We put a butterfinger in with my Mom.
They can't charge 50% more for obesity just for smoking. Obesity kills faster then smoking so the insurance companies are doing it for money. 30 years in industry so I know. Shame is why most people eat. Shaming doesn't help them. Mind your own business, nobody else's.
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I think more people need to do things like this for their loved ones after they pass away. I tell my self everyday that I need to life my life the way I want to not the way someone else wants me too. It sounds like this man had a wonderful life filled with the things that he loved. I know that I will have specific requests in my will on how my funeral will go. If people don't like my wishes they don't have to grieve or attend my funeral. RIP Sir and God Bless is Family and Friends
and he still got to live to 88???? take that, Dr. Oz, Jillian Michaels and all you pretentious loser.
A fitting and fun tribute kinda for their dad. The Whopper Junior's did not kill him. But the iceberg lettuce they put on them could never be considered nutritional.
This is overall a damn stupid article.
What's wrong with having a little fun even when you're dead? The man's family loved him so much, they did extraordinary things to honor him. If you still feel this way when you die, I hope that that loose dog that runs around graveyards shows you how he (the dog) feels by hiking his leg on your grave.
Burger King ...Home of the Whopper ..May he RIP>......he got his wish and great of burger king to give him the whopper jr.....
I know he didn't... but ha ha... I hope he didn't have to die to get a free one from Burger King... ha ha.. R.I.P David S. Kime, Jr.