So you’ve looked at caskets for three days and the best you could come up with is a 2-tier casket? Which doesn’t exist?
I refuse to try to reconcile all the differences between the images. You are dealing with a two hour visitation and a separate funeral service. I have no clue what happened over that three hour period - what got moved when, etc. I can come up with explanations which are reasonable, but you’d dismiss every one, and, unlike you, I have a life to live. Did the visitation start in one location, then get moved to the sanctuary? Did some child spill Hawaiian Punch on the original pall so they had to replace it with a backup? Did a sister’s flower arrangement get delivered late so had to be moved to a prominent location? I have no idea, and I really don’t care.
But what I DO know is that TWO television stations reported on the open casket funeral of Loretta Fuddy. The Hawaii Catholic Herald not only reported on the funeral but included a photo of it. The photo includes both the Governor of the State of Hawaii and Loretta Fuddy’s open casket.
So, of course, the obvious conclusion everyone should come to is that Loretta Fuddy is still alive and Hawaii is filled with people who are either 1) afraid for their lives, 2) bribed to be quiet, or 3) complicit in the conspiracy. Those people include the Governor of Hawaii, the Roman Catholic Church, every mourner in that church, all the people in the plane that crashed, all the rescuers, the coroner, the funeral home.
Sorry, that is NOT the way the real world works. Loretta Fuddy died. She had an open casket funeral and was buried.
"I have no clue what happened over that three hour period - what got moved when, etc."During the first two hours (visitation) the casket is open in the front isle. During the funeral mass, the casket is closed and sits in the aisle between the pews. You can see this in both the KITV (@0:25 and 0:47) and KHON (@0:30) videos.
And if you look at this photo again:
The memoriam and the easel w/the lei are not in the shot. Only the small stand with the flowers is visible. The cameraman may have zoom passed them to get a tighter shot. Which means they are not right next to the casket as both videos make them appear. Or they may have been moved (see rest of comment below).
The thing that Butterdezillion is calling a tier is actually part of the hinge of the casket lid covered by the lining. Like this one without the lining:
Because of the low resolution image and the same color of both linings, the casket lining and the lid lining appear to come together. In the casket picture above the lid is similar to Fuddy's casket. Where Butter drew the horizontal line on the lid is too high, it should be at the base of the series of vertical folds.
Go back to the KITV video at 2:02. The lid has the same little triangular shape as the family moves in. We know the family is the Fuddy family. And you can also see the easel w/the lei has either moved almost behind the memoriam or was always there and the close up shots are distorted by the angles and the zoom. You can also just make out the flowers that sit on the small table visible in the above photo.