What to do with dead animals.

Good evening. I wanna find how can I better deal with dead animals the next time I see one. I recently saw a dead possum in my backyard next to my garden. I first buried the first dead one deep into the ground so it can decay. I saw the second one yesterday in my garden. As gardeners, how can we use dead animals to help enrich our compost and soil? I wanna create a better system  of soil to strengthen all ecosystems near and far. Please drop by if you all have anything to add. Take care.

I do have something to add...I could leave my opinions and experience in doing so but I believe that educational institutions carry more credibility and weight than my experience.  Here is some professional information in video form with lots of technical details from the University of Wyoming that is consistent with my knowledge:



Good luck with whatever you do.

I'll check out the video and go from there. By the way, could the dead animal bones be made into bone meal? And what to do with the fur after I've seen it from a dead one for a couple of days from my backyard?

Blake said, "could the dead animal bones be made into bone meal? And what to do with the fur

Not knowing what caused these possums to die, I would not want to handle them due to the possible spread of disease.

I would only use the bones and fur of animals that I know what caused them to die.

How can we tell which types of diseases that spread from different types of animals? Viruses have played a deadly role in not only in human societies, but to ecosystems as well affecting the way of life. Could viruses occur from dead animals?