Manicured lawns and flower plots
A parking lot
A parking garage in the back (containing a hearse, limousine, and minivan for discreet body transfers)
A tastefully decorated foyer
A storage room (with body shipping boxes, a refrigeration unit, cleaning and embalming supplies, a workspace for transferring ashes to urns)
An embalming room (with a table, a sink, an embalming machine, jugs of embalming fluid, scalpels, aneurysm hooks, eye caps, a ventilation system, UV lights)
A viewing room (soft lighting, painted or wood paneled walls, an open space around the casket, silk flower arrangements, tasteful décor, a patterned rug or carpet to minimize noise, chairs or benches, boxes of tissues)
A showroom floor (glossy caskets in different styles, couches and tables for consultations, a selection of urns on display, a binder of flower arrangement choices, catalogues for special customizations and designs, samples of memorial pamphlets to be distributed the day of the funeral)
A chapel where services are held (a book for guests to sign, chairs or pews, a podium and stage, video and media equipment, a sound system, a piano or organ, guests clutching tissues and programs, an easel holding a portrait of the deceased, a collection of the deceased's personal items for viewing)
A reception room with snacks and drinks

Footsteps muffled in thick carpet
Soft music or hymns
People speaking in hushed tones
Fabric rustling
Quiet weeping
Sniffing
Blowing noses
Speeches given from the podium
A meaningful song sung by a loved one during the service
The creak of pews