Burial services may be traditional and include a visitation, followed by a life celebration service in a place of worship, the Interfaith Chapel at the funeral home or within the cemetery.  The casket is typically present at either the visitation or cemetery services. However, some families elect to have a private cemetery interment and observe public services using memorial picture, life collections [books, golf clubs, knitting needles…] it is a family decision whether to have the casket open or not.  You have the option of having the remains interred (earth burial), or they may be entombed in a crypt inside a mausoleum (above ground burial).