Posted on 03/13/2014 9:49:36 PM PDT by This Just In
Steve Irwin had one of the weirdest deaths imaginable: stung multiple times in the heart by a stingray which had probably mistaken him for a tiger shark. His final words, we now know from his cameraman, Justin Lyons, were: "I'm dying."
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If somebody wants to show it and somebody else wants to watch it, that’s all that matters. It’s called “FREEDOM”.
We’re all, to varying degrees, neighbors to wild life. I have seen Mr. Irwin wrestle gators, get down on his belly and go face to face with a deadly snake, etc.
I realize Steve Irwin never intended to harm any animals. His desire was to reintroduce people to the beauty, mystery, and dangers of wild animals. Mr. Irwin also wished to highlight endangered species, wildlife ecosystems, and the role humans play in that ecosystem.
What I did not find entertaining was his way of interacting with wildlife.
I prefer to focus on respect rather than our freedom to watch Mr. Irwin die. Out of respect for his life, wife, and children, I prefer to remember Steve Irwin as he was in livng.
People wish to see these sorts of videos for morbid amusement and curiosity. There is no redeeming reason why anyone would wish to see a man die in such a horrible way.
Same here. But, I don’t have a right to deny you the right to see it if you feel otherwise. Unless I own the tape.
I wholeheartedly agree.
He always struck me as an adrenaline junkie, just doing a big show off not much different than a base parachute jumper or a psycho robbing a bank, bucket list style.
Delingpole, a great writer who skewers environazi’s, has been hired by Breitbart London.
Let him RIP without idiots with popcorn watching on years after the fact.
RATINGS
Darwin Award.
“Should the video footage of Steve Irwin’s tragic death be published?”
IMHO, Steve Irwin took stupid risks to make a buck. Folks watched his show because eventually he was going to miscalculate and one of those animals was going to protect itself.
The decapitation of Daniel Pearl wasn’t televised. That was a video which would have been impactful.
Wasn’t Irwin involved in an incident in which he was holding his infant daughter while he was inside a pen, fooling around with a crocodile? At the time, it was compared with the Michael Jackson incident a year or two earlier where Jackson dangled the baby over the side of a balcony.
I don't know, morbid curiosity, perhaps... but there are a lot of fatal accident/plane crash clips on YouTube...and people still slow down and gawk at car crashes (That was a real pain in the arse when I was a fireman).
the family owns a zoo. it’s called exploiting for....the almighty buck. nothing more....
Please only dispatch the poisonous ones. The non serve a good purpose.
>> Exploitation to whet the bloodlust of the public? Bread and circuses redux?
Yup.
It was sad all the same. I did not want to see him throw his life away like that. Let's face it, though, his whole career had a "Kamikazee" essence to it. It was only a matter of time.
I'm glad I did not see this. Very sad. I hope his little girl is smarter.
Showing his death is beyond bad taste.
I do not want to see it, even by accident.
That’s the reasoning that libs use to justify the porn deluge.
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