There is no way of knowing what the local talk was . But yes, the WT study on the resurrresurrection painted speculative glowing pictures of how the dead may return, their characters being the same, how they would look the same, etc all based on a few words in John 5 : 28 &29.
After my mother died , I really bought in to tnis belief. I wanted to hug my mother again and have her in good health. When I woke up and realised that it was all human speculation, I was really disappointed.