I've been down this road a couple of times, and it's never easy. And though with time there is healing, I still have weepy days.

We're assuming they are dead, right?

I have experienced the deaths of many loved ones during my life, and burying them does not offer closure. When I was a child, I found burials creepy and frightening. Now as an adult I'm more rational about it, but I will never stop missing the people that I have lost.

For me, the most difficult think I've ever do in my life. But I really think that it depends on the person and the situation. Burying a love one is always hard, but after a large period of illness maybe it would be less hard, because it's a solution more than a problem for those who is died. And other times we love so much the one who died, but the relation isn't so strong in the moment of the death, so maybe it is less hard too. Our relations are so different between the different persons we met in our lives, and it can't be as hard to burying a love one in every particular situation (and it doesn't signify that the love felt was different, it only signify that for me is not the same to lose a parent/son... that to lose an old friend that I didn't see in a lot of time, and I love my old friend too).

Done it on three occassions.  Never gets easy.  I don't wish it on anyone.  Yet. . .it is a human experience that binds all of us.  I wish anyone good luck and fortune who must walk through this the first time. . .

Its particularly difficult if they're still living and trying to climb out of the grave.

Less mordantly flippant, the difficulty of this depends on the route the loved one took to get the point of burial. Sometimes it is a relief to see the ending of pain.

I do not know how difficult this can be, I have not buried a loved one in my life. My parents died thousands of miles away from me, and when I found out, it was too late to be there. But I can only imagine how hard it could be.

I had to bury my twin Grandsons. Very difficult!

We had my grandparents cremated after they died (they died 11 years apart) because it was their wish.