[NYer]

I'd rather be buried unembalmed in a pine box with a headstone consisting of a single fired brick than be burnt like a pagan.

Ditto!! And, regardless of burial or cremation, most Catholics will want a funeral Mass. I recently attended a funeral for someone who had been cremated before the Mass. The funeral director carried a small cardboard box and placed it on a table near the Sanctuary. Ugh!

[ichabod1]

If they're going to do that they should drape it with the cloth of Baptism and proceed just like any other requiem mass.