I agree. I would imagine it is rare to find what we term a funeral home in most of Africa. Before such establishments here in our country, the family also performed similar tasks. How the dead are buried in any religion is a critical subject because it is believed to influence their beloved’s afterlife.
Additionally, from what I have read, many of the traditional rituals are being abandoned in the Ebola epidemic with corpses being simply put into the street to be picked up. Again, this is similar to what happens in these types of events throughout history. Just read about the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia in the late 1700’s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fever_Epidemic_of_1793
or the black death of Europe (Bring out your dead)
even the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
Not in my religion. (Catholicism) In my religion, one's state in the afterlife is dependent on one's relationship with God at the time of death, not where one is buried, whether there is a pig in the grave, etc.