Road Kills

"I stopped being grossed out when I started getting hungry and thirsty. I had to eat. And this was the job that was available," Jackson said. "You got child support looking at you in the face. And after so long it just became natural to me. To pick up a deer or a raccoon or a skunk, it's natural. I know how to get it."

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“One time I came back from a summer vacation and one of the landfill operators came over laughing,” Boeser said. “He goes, ‘I love it when you’re on vacation. Your son must have tried three times to get a deer off the carrier the other day. He threw up every time.’ ”

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in... See more

I wonder if people are better able to accept the death of an animal if it appears peaceful, versus one that has suffered a tragic, blood-spattered demise? I wonder if the people that react most violently to Joy’s work are those steeped in the denial of their own mortality?

Yes, during the transformation of death into life we may have to catch a glimpse of something we don’t want to see, or a whiff of something we don’t want to smell. But maybe our willingness to endure these kinds of experiences is part of what it means to pay our respects to the dead. And maybe the more attention we pay to the animals on the side of... See more

While all kinds of animals get hit, deer are the most common victims. What’s more, autumn is rutting season for deer, which means they have one thing on their mind — and it’s not watching out for cars on highways.

Morris said the key to staying safe while working is keeping your eyes open, knowing your escape route and working quickly. "Do it and get out of there in certain time — no lingering around and making our chances greater.”

“In the end, people seem to be afraid to think of their bodies as merely temporary arrangements of atoms which house an eternal life-force. They are attached to their limited, constructed ways of thinking, and any change scares them. For this reason, my work is often not well-received.”

Driving = job = money = food & shelter. Without food & shelter we would die.

The short equation is: Driving = Life and its counterpart,

Not Driving = Death.