When my husband died we were not informed by the funeral home until 2 hours before visitation started that my husbands body was not even at the funeral home because it had not yet been released by the medical examiners office.
It was too late to cancel anything. Took an hour of screaming at people to get the body released. It arrived at the funeral home during visitation.
Since it was a closed casket very few of us knew it was empty. I felt like such a fraud because people came to pay respects and were praying over the empty casket. I still haven’t told my mother.
The funeral home wanted us to have a mock visitation and possibly a mock funeral the next day with a private funeral whenever the body was released.
Oh that must have been extra devastating to go through. A funeral alone is enough. My condolences and prayers go out to you.