Cemetries and crematoria are nearly always taken care of by the funeral director when making the arrangements.  

What are my options for funeral ceremonies?

Each culture and religious belief defines a funeral a little differently. Today, we commemorate a death in a several different ways.

1. Traditional funeral services typically include one or more visitations/viewings, a funeral ceremony with an open or closed casket, and a procession to the cemetery where additional ceremonies may take place.
2. Memorial services commemorate the life of the deceased without the body present. They are usually following burial or cremation, or if the body has not been recovered (e.g., lost at sea).
3. Combined traditional funeral services and memorial services — a visitation and a service with the body present, as well as one or more memorial services without the body present.
4. Graveside services are held at the cemetery, either in a chapel or beside the grave, immediately prior to burial.
5. Non-commemorative funerals are when the deceased is buried (i.e., direct burial), cremated (i.e., direct cremation), or donated to medical science without any formal service to remember the life that has passed.

Military, fraternal and other organizations have their own unique ceremonies or rites for members who have died. These ceremonies may be conducted separately or included in traditional services. For example, services for a military veteran might include the presentation of the American flag to survivors and a 21-gun salute.