The Bible tells us that you should bury. Also, we believe in a physical resurrection and it's a resurrection of soul and body. It is usual in the Jewish community that people will belong to a burial society. And generally Jews are buried in their own cemeteries or in Jewish sections of municipal cemeteries. White shrouds and plain coffins are provided.
Immediate mourners tear a garment of their own, usually one close to the heart.
The reason is that bereavement is a time of anger. This is a way of taking the anger out on a garment rather than a being. He adds that being involved in a burial is one of the highest acts of kindness in Orthodoxy because the deceased person can't return the favour. These days funerals shouldn't be like a conveyer belt, suggests Fr Alan McLean, parish priest at the Catholic church of The Most Holy Trinity, Bermondsey. I will always meet the family and plan the funeral.