Due to participation by funeral directors which appeared as a service business in the early modern times, and an increase in the number of people who are in doubt about commercialized Buddhist ritual funeral services, burial services in nature (ash scattering, burial in the space, burial in the forest) have also started spreading as a form of funeral ceremony.
近代になってサービス業として登場した葬儀会社の介入もあり、ビジネス化された仏式葬儀に疑問を持つ人びとも増えつつあり、自然葬（散骨、宇宙葬、森林葬など）もひとつの形式として浸透し始めている。