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No, my characters wouldn't perform so many useless actions, such as digging up and burying a decaying corpse every few days. Instead, they would find a necromancer who would stop the decomposition processes in the woman's body and then revive her as a puppet.
Or, if there are no necromancers in the setting, they would store the woman's body in ice for better preservation and also care for it using various oils.