Petrus, your comments are excellent.  Another issue is that not only should the church authorities have read, "The American Way of Death," but that they continually fail in the EDUCATION of the people, in general, as to what is acceptable in the church.  Too often, the first time people even think of burial [cremation, cemetery, mausoleum] is when a loved one has died.  People know what the funeral directors tell them.  The church authorities, too often, have said NOTHING about burial. 

Education [not moralizing] is needed---and the People of God are not receiving it.