Don,t quite how to start this, Close friend, long time buddy died today as result of rattle snake bite.Was returning home from party, possibly drunk stopped on road when hesaw large rattle snake,(details hazy) either attemped to catch live snake, or remove dead snake from road and was bitten. had reaction to anti venom ,placed in induced coma ,never came out. I have always respected snakes have captured non-poisonus and poisonus snakes. Taught friend how to handel non-poisonus snakes.Leave it at this.