The bottom line is that except for psychologically damaged/deranged individuals, nobody wants to have one of these [link] to get rammed into their chest, pierce their heart and introduce toxic venom, then get ripped back out or broke off inside them as their preferred method of death.
Nobody remotely sane would consider that a good or worthwhile way to die.
And from all indications Steve Irwin would NOT have wanted an animal to end his life, because as a publicly-stated conservationist, he would not have wanted an animal to get the bad press for it.
It's like people whining about American casualties in Iraq...it's crap and I'm tired of hearing it. Yes, it saddens me to hear about a soldier's death, but we've lost less people in the entire time we've been in Iraq than we lost on some *DAYS* in the Civil War.
What I'm getting at is that perspective is important...and it irritates me when people lose theirs.
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And about the Civil War thing, yes more Americans died, but that's thinking of it as Americans versus Americans. That's the same as saying no one but British people died in the Revolutionary War. We don't think of it that way because we drafted our own constitution, but so did the Conferderates. If we want to be most accurate, we have to view them the same way we view ourselves in the American Revolution: as a different country.
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Also I was pretty amazed at how anyone that brought in that kind of money didn't even buy himself a new 4wd, he just spent it all on land for wildlife conservation. At the end of the day I sure as heck appreciate everything he did, I think he was so valuable for children to see, his personality but also the way he informed to show there's no need to be scared, just be aware of the risks and still love the animals!
After seeing all the tributes, I think he was a great ambassador, a good person that has achieved awesome things for this world...How many people can say that they had such an impact on something so important to us??
I actually think the way he died was ok, would have been quick and he died doing something he was so passionate about. I personally would much rather die doing something I loved (or simply go to sleep one night and not wake up) as oppose to getting hit by a bus etc - do you understand what I mean?
Also with the freakishly rare way he died, I think it will help to keep his dream and his work alive for much longer to come. Something like 3 people in the entire documented history have been killed by stingrays, go out with style I say!!
But seriously, I respect the guy and all his achievements.
I just don't think he would have chosen to die like that if he'd been given a choice. And no, it wasn't quick. He survived long enough to pull out the barb. Quick and painless is a shotgun to the head, not a large poison spike through the chest into the heart with time to pull it out.
The connotation I'm getting at is that he loved animals, and he would not have wanted an animal to be blamed for his death because of the negativity that would result towards that animal. In all the shows I ever watched of him, the man wanted nothing but good things for wildlife.
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