The grieving mother of Britain’s fattest man has revealed she is worried her son cannot be cremated due to his 50-stone frame.
Jason Holton, 33, from Camberley, Surrey, died from organ failure last Saturday, just days before celebrating his 34th birthday.
Now his distraught mother, Leisa, is struggling to find a place capable of cremating his body, as “there are concerns it may be too wide for the camera,” she told him. Sun.
The 55-year-old also claimed that a burial would cost too much money as her son’s large body would require a double plot rather than a single plot.
Leisa contacted several funeral homes and revealed that the concern is not Jason’s weight, but the fact that he might be too wide to fit in a hearse.
Jason Holton from Camberley, Surrey, has been housebound for eight years and was close to death after almost suffering organ failure earlier.
His mother Leisa is concerned that he cannot be cremated due to his 50-stone structure.
Jason (pictured) weighed 47kg and died of obesity and organ failure last Saturday.
“A funeral company says they will provide a larger rectangular coffin and thinks they have already figured out how they will transport it,” he told the newspaper.
The mother had stayed by Jason’s side at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, where six firefighters took him in a special ambulance.
Jason took the title of heaviest man in the UK after Carl Thompson, who weighed 65kg, died in 2015.
She began overeating as a teenager and blamed bullying and mental health issues as the root cause of her weight gain.
He added that his father’s death when he was just three years old also had a profound impact.
He told TalkTV: “Maybe if I had my dad around, maybe there would be rules about what I eat and things that stop me from putting things in my mouth.”
‘Just eating constantly. Lamb meat for doner, I had a problem with energy drinks. I just decided to grab 15 cans of Monster and drink them all in one go.
Leisa said he was put on kidney dialysis and an intravenous drip, but his organs continued to fail.
Doctors then told him he would die within a week, he said, and he died Saturday.
The coroner’s report indicated that he died of organ failure and obesity.
Jason lived in a custom-built bungalow equipped with specially reinforced furniture.
He hoped to be prescribed the Wegovy slimming vaccine, without which he feared he would die in 2025, and described his situation as a “time bomb”.
At his peak, he weighed more than 50 kilos and called himself “the fattest man in Britain”, after he was deemed too heavy for a gastric band.
In 2020, it collapsed and a team of more than 30 firefighters and engineers had to be lifted by plane with a crane from its mother’s third floor.
He described the incident as “the most devastating moment of my life.” The scary thing about all of this was the number of people outside.
His health problems prevented him from working, so he had to receive benefits. His medical care is estimated to have cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.
He insisted that he had reduced his consumption and had been eating healthier, but that it had made little difference.
He said: “I’ve been making changes that I really have for the audience because of the way I’ve been, my diet now isn’t consistent with a lot of rubbish and I’m not changing.”
In 2022, he suffered a series of mini-strokes and a suspected blood clot and was unable to walk, leaving him confined to his bed at his home in a Hampshire village.
Leisa said Jason became seriously ill in February and added: ‘RUntil the end, Jason was very worried about me and if I would be okay. He was a brilliant person, very kind and thoughtful.