We all know it will be gross and a complete clusterfuck when Amber dies. It's always a messy thing when someone who weighs this much dies. If they cremate her they're gonna have to cut her up to get her into the chute to reduce her to ashes. If they bury here she's gonna need one hell of a casket and a huge plot. If she dies alone it's gonna be like when coastal towns blow up dead whales that wash ashore. There is no way to die with anything approaching dignity when you are a landcow and it's even harder to approach the situation with grace or frugality.
The thing is, who takes "custody" of the situation. Generally when a woman dies and she is unmarried, her parents or siblings will handle her funeral arrangements. Amberlynn's not that close to her family and I don't think her parents. her siblings or even Aunt Tammy are in a position to pay for even the cheapest funeral. So does that mean Becky, Rickie and Eric will be forced to pay for disposal of her carcass? Can they just have the city come remove the body and then leave it at that, like making the state pay for her to be buried in a Potter's Field sort of place? Will the city come and seize all her notebooks, chokers and stickers in an attempt to offset the costs of dealing with her? Will she end up in a mortuary fridge until someone comes to collect her?
She really needs to get her affairs in order along with some burial insurance but she won't even get health insurance so this is another reason Rickie needs to do what is necessary to get her out of that house. Her dying will be a complete mess for all three of them. But for us it will be a hilarious voyage, seeing Amber off into the sweet hereafter. Their clusterfuck will be our dairy for a couple of weeks and then we'll have to focus on Chantal's decline, and when she kicks off there will be another. It's the USA. There will always be another deluded, uneducated, super-fat asshole to observe and mock.