What is a "traditional, full-service funeral"?

What is a "traditional, full-service funeral"?

Dan Redmond (Cemetery and Funeral Inspector, California Department of Consumer Affairs ) gives expert video advice on: What services do most funeral homes offer?; Do I have to embalm the body before burial or cremation? and more...

A traditional, full service funeral is where the body is picked up from the place where the person passed away, brought to the funeral home. The body is prepared, dressed, placed in a casket, brought into a service. There's a service that can be held with all your family and friends present. Again, sometimes they'll have music playing, sometimes they'll have video of the person playing. Then they'll take the body from, and transport the body from the actual funeral establishment to the cemetery and do the interment.