It's not that it's the fact that op is sad from another death only to have to witness more death.

I understand that but I was 12 years old and lost my mom then half of the family right after and when we hit animals on the road it didn't bother me. its part of life. everyone dies at some point.

But not everyone deals with grief the same way. Just because you are comfortable with death, doesn't mean OP will be.

Everyone deals with death in different ways. The OP just feels that right now they're at the point where anything dying is terrible even if it is a raccoon.

Unless they just broke it's back and it had to drag itself off the road to die in the ditch.

#22 what the hell is wrong with you? that's the worst way to see it.

I feel really bad that #22 comment made me laugh. Unfortunately a lot of things that get hit by cars don't die right away, and that's of absolutely no help to OP at all.

#51 - it could be worse, suppose the racoon's life insurance company doesn't want to cover accidental death and its wife and kids have to pay for its funeral out of pocket? That plus their dad dying in a ditch must suck.

You sound like a ******* asshole! I almost hope someone hits you with his car and is like "whatever" and drives away. A year ago someone drove over our kitten and didn't even stop. This happened in front of my mom, her friends and my sister. They ran up to it and had to comfort it till the poor creature died a good 5 minutes later.

I'm sorry I couldn't go back and comfort the, most likely, rabies infested animal. I was on the freeway.

also 35, what was your kitten doing outside on the roads? domesticated cats are to be kept inside to prevent such things.

Domestic cats aren't MEANT to live inside - some people are just not fortunate enough to be able to let the cat be outside. Domestic cats are aloud to be outside when you have a house in a place that usually isn't visited by such assholes. And that can had taught itself to use the cross-walk as it is intended to be used. All normal people stopped when they saw a cat crossing the road at the designated place. Hitting animals on the freeway is normal - they are stupid like that sometimes, but it was nowhere stated in your first comment. It's an important detail.

39-- According to whom? I know quite a few people that have inside/ outside cats. The cats hate to be constantly locked inside the house. Maybe the cat had ran out of the house.

are you guys joking? it's common sense to keep your cat inside where it can't get attacked by other animals, get lost, be susceptible to outside diseases or get hit by ******* cars. a cat can be perfectly happy staying inside.

There aren't really any cat diseases where I live: cats can roll around on the ground all day and not get even lice - we don't have it here. There are no raccoons, foxes or other animals that can attack the cat. Dogs walk on leaches, unless they are specially trained to not react to cats, humans or loud noises. During the relatively short life of a cat where I live it gets unlucky about as often as humans. Should YOU then live inside your whole life? Since it's as dangerous out there for you as for the cat, I mean.

While I think #35 response was kind of harsh, there are lots of places where outdoor cats are fine. In less congested areas like suburbs or rural areas, for instance. I can understand that a city dweller might not want to have their cats roaming outside, but that's an issue for each owner and shouldn't be a blanket statement.

53 if you are actually being serious about that comparison, no as a human being I shouldn't be confined inside my house all day. It's because cats don't have work and school. And I highly doubt a stray dog or cat would think of attacking me because they're generally scared of humans or that a hawk will capture me and take me away. I hope you understand now why your comparison is ridiculous.

Another problem is that cats tend to kill native animals and birds. Although, I'd hate to keep my cat indoors all the time.

Cats kill animals so that you know what they're capable of. They're kind of sadistic that way.

There's nothing wrong with raccoons, and I doubt the op is upset because the wake was boring.

wow #31, you're such a dumbass.

#31 People like you are poisonous creatures.

#31--being that you're 14, I could understand not knowing something due to not having been taught. However, it's disheartening to see that your generation believes & claim such ludicrous things like raccoons are "poisonous creatures." Maybe you should re-take a class or 2...or just not post anything till you're 30.