They made a big deal of showing the wedding ring. Maybe mourning his dead wife? Not sure....that was strange.
Was that the explanation?
That was some of what I thought I heard but I was preoccupied at the time....waiting for someone who might have been paying more attention....
It certainly seems ritualistic. Maybe it was a reference to Jewish ritual? In Jewish ritual (I looked it up online, so all bets off), the body is prepared for burial by ritual washing and dressing in only in simple cloth to avoid distinction between rich and poor. If the person was injured, the the ritual washing is never completed.