And I haven't ridden since.

Last week I told of some poor riding weather, like ice, and watching bikes slip right out from under the riders....I lucked out, and find some comfort that I was able to survive the conditions with my very limited experience of barely over a years riding time. But that wasn't the thing I reflect upon, no. Last week I was riding to work at a little before 4 AM....I was about a mile from my house heading down hill, deep in the forest. Riding slowly as a precaution to conditions and the always unpredictable deer and raccoons who dart out in front of me from the heavy cover, I saw something in the road, right in my path, I thought it was a branch, or perhaps a large trash bag fell from a truck.....
Once along side it I glanced down, it was a body, all covered up except where the ski mask showed his face. He wasn't moving, and it didn't seem he was hit, or fell from a vehicle. I was the second person down the hill as I was following the tracks of the only other car down....
My mind raced, thinking I was being set up to be clobbered if I stopped...
I didn't. I got a safe distance away and called 911. I haven't heard anything back from them, or read anything in the news.
No where on my radar screen was I thinking body when I was coming upon the object. I can still see it when I close my eyes to go to sleep....
Some have faulted me for not stopping and lending help, the 911 operator told me I did the right thing, as this spot is very isolated....
My wife would have clobbered me if I had stopped  

..I was about a mile from my house


WAY too close to home to be finding bodies. I woulda gone home, got the car & a 2x4 & can O Mace & gone back & checked on the guy. Yea, I woulda been late to work that day. Finding a body isnt exactly a good thing & one so close to home? Id wanna know WHY he was dead. Accident? Hit by a car? Or Intentional, hit by a bullet or baseball bat?

There is no one single correct answer as to what to do in a cenario like this  

Raydawg if you don't have any medical training there probably wasn't anything you could have done for him if he wasn't moving and injured. If it was a stop and hit scam, there's no doubt you did the right thing (since I'm assuming you weren't carrying a gun or weapon). And if he's dead and you didn't feel like poking him with a stick and wasting your entire morning waiting for the authorities to arrive and trying to answer questions you don't know the answer to, enough said on that one.

I'm with JOG I would have wanted to find out first hand, probably would have taken my safety off, called the cops and poked him with a stick LOL  

and with privacy issues nowadays you can't even confirm someone was picked up.

think you did the right thing, but I'd waited till someone came at the safe spot, least someone come barrelin' down the road and ran him over.

Well.....never found out anything about it, no news story or call from the cops wanting any more info, odd. Perhaps it was nothing more that a real idiots left over new years day party buzz who indeed in his stupor just thought he'd rest a wee bit and perhaps my bike woke him....I dunno  

Where was that Stinger?