I plan to donate my body to a medical school to train doctors in anatomy. My brother-in-law did this and when he died the university medical school arranged to have his body picked up by a local funeral home and about a year and a half later his cremated remains were returned to the family for burial...all without cost.
My mother donated her body to the U Of R when she died in 1990. A funeral director had to be paid to retrieve her body from the hospital she had died in, and transport it to the U of R. When they were done with her, they called my sister to come pick up her ashes. We already had a spot for her next to our father, and had to pay the cemetery to take care of her internment.