My mother's friend's mother couldn't bear to part with her dog when she died, so she had her freeze-dried. Tiffany now resides in a box in the closet. When the mother dies, her daughter is to put the dog into her mother's casket.
I can't imagine that. My mother is really attached to her dog, too, but she wants Tara cremated. Then when my mother dies, I'm to put the ashes in the casket so they can be buried together. Kind of similar, but at least they're ashes and not the actual dog!