The internal dimensions of a standard casket are 79’ long by 24’ wide. I’m pretty sure she would fit.
A standard casket is 74”L x 23”W x 12”H.
A wide casket is 74”L x 27”W x 12”H.
Both are interior dimensions.
http://www.bjs.com/biz/help/FAQ_Funeral.pdf
Have you looked at the post I directed you to, where I put my blog post here? I knew from other sources that she’s about 5’2” and knew the size of the casket so I put the viewing area of the casket into scale using a grid on Word. Then I took the photo of her from the morning of the crash and enlarged it until she was 5’2” according to that grid, and that is the size that I compared to the size of the casket.
I don’t know any more exact or objective way to analyze this situation, and if there is something wrong with my method I wish somebody would tell me what is wrong with it.
I’ve looked at a lot of sites about how they prepare for funerals, and they normally measure the person in the standard position with hands together on the stomach, measuring across the whole body at the elbows where they are bent, which is the widest point. If the person is wider across than the size of a standard casket then they use an oversized casket. Fuddy should have been put in a wider casket, based on the photo of her that morning. They used a standard casket AND there were only a few small dark blobs that stuck up out of that casket.
People were speculating about what should or shouldn’t have showed so I wanted to see how she WOULD fit - not just my opinion or hunch, but cold hard numbers. That’s what I put together. And they make it clear that if she was in that casket it would have been a tight squeeze and her arms would have to be on top of her body.
And then, just now I realized that the photo of her in the casket has the wrong kind of casket even. The end of it where the head is shouldn’t go straight across; it should have maybe a 4-5” notch that’s lower as it nears the front of the casket, so the cushioned wide-lip lid can fit into that notch. So that definitely wasn’t even the same casket as was at the funeral.