In early America, home funerals were the practice everywhere, and each community had a group of women who came in to help with the "laying out of the dead." Visitation was held in the front parlor followed by a procession to the church and cemetery.

In some parts of North America, religious and ethnic groups have maintained the practice of caring for their own dead. With the spread of the Hospice movement, families are assuming more responsibility at the time of death, and home or church funerals are again returning. Those who have been involved with such funerals have found them therapeutic and meaningful, with costs being minimal.

When the term "traditional" is used it generally means:

• A time of visitation with the family, during which the casket may be present ("viewing" is most often done by the immediate family and friends during private time)
  
• A religious service in a church
  
• And/or a graveside ceremony for earth burial of the body or cremated remains

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