[Popman]

This was really such a sad thing -- a one in a billion accident.

Yes, it's sad that he died. I feel badly for his family

One shot in 1,000,000,000 ?

With 6,000,000,000 people on the planet, I think your odds are a bit off.

I'm surprised he wasn't already eaten, bitten, poisoned, mauled, torn apart by some animal

[Zakeet]

It is sad, but not unexpected. The way guy dealt so dangerously close with poisonous animals he was bound to get bitten, stung, or pierced at some point!

The bet around our house was that he would be taken down by something much, much smaller that a gator, snake or spider.

Given Steve's propensity to jump into swamp water and wrangle with the filthiest of nature's carrion eaters, we were putting our money on parasites and/or microbes.

Any way you want to slice it, Mr Irwin was not what someone in the life insurance business would refer to as "insurable."

[Rastus]

A bit off, but the odds were still low, low, low. There have apparently been an estimated 17 deaths worldwide from stingrays since the Civil War.