Participants in funeral ceremonies who wish to honor the deceased make use in burial ceremonies of plaques of stone, such as marble, or other commemorative articles on which inscriptions are engraved in memory of the deceased on which photos or funeral articles, such as crosses or flowers sculpted in metal or other materials, are placed. Such commemorative articles are left around the casket of the deceased and are then left on the grave of the deceased or in the burial vault into which the deceased is placed.
In funeral ceremonies followed by cremation, traditional commemorative articles cannot be used as they cannot accompany the coffin and the deceased at the time of cremation.