Funeral Consumers Alliance

If a party wants to be cremated, is it possible to rent a casket for viewing for one day, and then the body be placed into a travel container to go to the cremation location for handling. It seems like such a waste in this date and time to pay for a casket in the thousands that is suposed to be burned, I have my doubt that even happens. Do you have advise for this process, or laws that protect the public from paying for a casket that could be returned to the funernal palo for re-sale.