Not going to link it (can be easily found), but I saw there was a hoarders show episode where a person was storing multiple dead cats in their freezer.
Also I think they ran out of room so there were a few that didn't make it to the freezer that were decomposing in plastic bags at room temperature.
The rationale was that they were going to cremate the cats, which I guess is a thing some people do in some places like California since there are bans on burning them on your property?
Still, I found this example disgusting, fascinating, and motivating for me to clean up my comparative smaller messes.
That person wasn't going to cremate them, it was using that as an excuse.
I'm not in CA but we have to cremate our pets. I had to do it to my dog a while back.