[rx]

Most of us have probably been to visitations where the deceased didn't look very much as they had in real life. Whenever that seems the case, almost no one would ever stand up to suggest it wasn't the ostensible person it was supposed to be.

Thus to suggest that because no one overtly said such a thing (about which is publicly known, at least) and therefore that it must have been the real Fuddy, is out of place and without good support.

[Fred Nerks]

...Most of us have probably been to visitations where the deceased didn't look very much as they had in real life.

ok, so a hundred or so people at the funeral were fooled into believing they were paying their last respects to a relative, or workmate, a friend, and what was in the coffin was a Madam Tussaud look-alike. (Had it been a blow-up doll, they would have noticed.)

Now you just might need to explain why the need for a plastic replica on the aircraft. Why not make the switch in the ambulance? Whoops! That would mean the priest on the island was in on it...

It's your baby, you fix it. I'm inclined to think it's possible the life-vest she wore was removed after she was taken out of the water dead, and it might have been mislabelled.