I've never seen a quilt at a furneral, however, when my mother died at the hospice center, when they took her from her room to the furneral home,the hospice workers had made a quilt that had all the workers and volunteers hand prints on the quilt and they covered the stretcher with the quilt before the wheeled it out passed us. My mother was not a quilter but my sister and I are. It was a great comfort to see her covered with this quilt all made up of caring hands. The quilt doesn't stay with the deceased (they use it again) but it was a comforting symbol for us as we were saying our first farwells to mom. Amazing the feelings a quilt can impart.