Disturbing a grave

Is it wrong to unbury your dog and cat after 2 years, so that you can now afford to cremate them and bring them with you because you no longer will have access to them in the future.  That is what we did last week.  It was a warmer day in the high 50's, after a night of showers.  We came with shovels in hand and a tarp to put them on top of in the back of the car.  It wasn't a pleasant experience at all, but we were able to get our german shepard out of the ground and into the vets office without seeing any carcass or tufts of fur.  She weighed a lot less than when we first buried her over 2 years ago.  Theos was part of our family and it was important to bring her with us, since we were moving to Florida.  Theos had been there for the opening of the restaurant in Concord, NH and throughout my entire ordeal with becoming psychotic.  She was a good dog. 
She was buried beside Mowgli, our orange cat - however because we already disturbed his gravesite the day of his first burial, we never wrapped him in a towel or such, so when I dug him up he was flattened and curled in a ball.  We saw no recognizeable parts to him, except for his fur and he along with Theos we drove to the vets for their last rite of passage.  They were to be cremated.

It makes me recognize some things about myself and how we might want to be buried or burned and it is a hard decision.  Cost wise, it would make sense to have a cremation, like my parents want.  But I definitely would want a headstone to be remembered by.  Being all for genealogy and such I would want a solid record of where I died to be known to the outside world, but I don't know yet what I want to be done with regards to a showing, during the wake part of any death ceremony.  What would you want done?  Do you have any desires already planned out?  Shouldn't we be thinking seriously about the cost and effectiveness of doing one thing over another around our ages now before it is too late?  Let me know what you, my readers think about how you plan to be buried, and what death services you plan to entail in your final days here on earth.  I would love to read them.  Thank you way ahead of time.

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