Pets- Cremation or burial?

I know personally that I like cremating my pets(although being only 19.. I only have two pets that have passed and kept), I get extremely insulted when people come up(especially family) and say to me 'Why not just toss your pet under some dirt instead of spending more money on the thing?' Which I have been said to, exactly like that.. Or when family members really close to you don't remember which pet passed away that was like a family member it the pet's own right.

I almost lost my two animals today that I was going to cremate, my mother was storing them along with her previous cat, and she had her electricity shut off. She was using a power cord from her neighbor's to power her TV for her dogs but couldn't be bothered to use the extension to put the freezer she had the animals in on so they didn't decay or anything. She's a very confusing person and never makes sense, ever. I turned into an emotional mess once I knew my pets were in danger of not being salvageable for cremation so I made tons of frantic phone calls to family members all saying that they didn't want dead animals(pets or otherwise) in their freezers and they most certainly wouldn't help me to get a freezer to use.

That left me with only my aunt and uncle that had already gone way above and beyond for me. They told me that if I wanted to get them cremated, they'd hold them until I could afford it. It broke my heart, apparently my mother had her electricity shut off three days before I found out. All the meat she had stored was rancid and my animal's boxes were just horrible but they didn't smell which was a gift from god I'm sure.

I was so close to these animals in life, and even though it's just a body now I can't seem to part with that either I suppose. I've buried pets before, but my bond was never as strong as it was with these two pets. There was a third pet that I completely regret parting with, I wish I took her and kept her until I could cremate her too even though we only knew each other for a few months until her untimely passing.


So what do you like better personally? Burial or Cremation? Why do you like that "method", what makes it so special?

There is a third option, taxidermy/freeze drying. Would you ever consider that?