No Kidding!
Please people, the poor animal died. Show a little mercy, will ya? It was a coon, not a RAT. All these posts about it being a filthy, disgusting, disease carrying, nuisance, alcoholic, drug addicted, meaner than a junkyard dog, ignorant rodent seem to have this poor coon confused with your typical RAT.
If you've ever had one make a home in your attic, leaving steamy raccoon poop for weeks on end while you tried to catch it, like I have, you might have a different attitude toward them. Actually, I know you'd have less sympathy.