If those are her hands, and if she had on a white dress with a black pattern, then why do the sleeves look all black? The photo has been edited, but how do the “hands” look before the enhancement? Where’s the rosary? It’s also usual that a crucifix is in the coffin, too, but maybe things are done differently in Hawaii. Somebody on this page posted a “joke” image that shows a man in a coffin. Notice that his head is elevated instead of being below his hands. Why wouldn’t that be so with Fuddy? Don’t they put a pillow beneath the head? This may be indelicate, but when bodies in coffins are carried, the body can shift. Even so, we’d expect the funeral director to remedy that situation, before the viewing.
That image is darkened. I was trying to figure out where the bottom of the casket was amongst the light-colored fabric so I darkened and added contrast, thinking I’d follow the angles of the coffin to try to get perspective. But I’ve forgotten how to do one-point perspective and it occurred to me to use the coffin’s measurements to visualize how much room we’d be talking about. I forgot to adjust the brightness and contrast back.
I’m not Catholic so I’m not aware of some of the finer points here, but I noticed that one of the mourners crossed herself as she passed where the coffin was placed in the photoshopped image. Do Catholics cross themselves when they see dead people? Or would there have been some kind of crucifix that they would have been honoring?
The Diocese’s photo looks like it has a bigger blog towards the middle of the coffin, which I thought might be an urn, and 2 smaller blobs that show up, spaced fairly equally across the viewing area. Could those be some kind of memorabilia, photos, crucifix or rosary, or something?
We need the Catholics to chime in since they know more of what to expect.
The photos of caskets show a back rest. I can’t really remember if I’ve ever seen a body laying flat on its back in the casket.