Re: Steve Irwin...
 

He died doing what he loved.


Some people exist for 85 years.
Steve lived for 44.

Re: Steve Irwin...
 

When I opened up the Red Eye this morning I was starteled by the large bold letters "Dear on Tape" and even more starteled by the caption in smaller (yet still bold) letters underneath it "Irwin's final moments caught on camera; would you watch?"
At first I was drawn away thinking "who would want to watch this" but then got sucked into reading it because I didn't want to pay attention to my teacher. The article (which isn't online at the moment, I will check tomorrow to post the link when it is up) goes on to talk about how he wanted it shown to people. It states that "the only remote justification for publicizing this would be accident prevention" you know what I agree. If this were to be shown it should be for accident prevention. I know at least I was taught at Sea World when I was little that stingrays are generally harmless and I think that some people still go diving with that theory.
The article also brings up the "Grizzly Man" death tape and how that is not shown anywhere becuase it is just to disturbing.
I am going to school for television and all I can say at the end of this all is that if I had a TV station this wouldn't be shown. I don't know why but it just wouldn't.

Re: Steve Irwin...
 

its kinda like the 911 videos. They show the planes hitting the buildings all the time (but you cant see the individual people in the plane)

its very rare that they show footage of the people who jumped from the upper floors, they might show one person jumping (hundreds jumped that day)

and they never show them hitting the ground.

I think everyone who knew of Steve now knows that he died in his chosen line of work. Taking risks has potential results that are both positive and negative. Everyone should know that.

But we dont need to see Steve's last moments to understand that he was, in fact, killed.