Now I know his death has already been covered, but reading the BBC news site they are debating as to whether the video of his death should be released.
Steve once said that if he died he would want it to be filmed, but because it has does that mean it can or should be released?
Personally I wouldn't want to see it. Death scares me, and the thought of seeing someone breathing their last does not appeal to me in the slightest but if it was released would you want to see it??
A resounding NO from me....
I had the misfortune to be curious about the iraq beheadings a while back....
Then I found a website that claimed to have the footage...
I expected a guy kneeling down and a another standing swinging a big sword!
Half of me didn't want to look ..... but the other half wanted to ensure I had experienced everything I could in life..
For 3 days I felt sick to my stomach and sincerely wished I had never looked!!!!!!!!!
What I saw convinced me never to visit that site again!
No from me too.
I see enough people breath their last with my job though if it was Steve's wish for it to be filmed then that's his choice. You will, of course, have some of the audience who will watch because of the interest in his work and life but then there will be others who watch through morbid curiousity. I'm not decrying anyone who would watch it simply for the curiosity factor, as in Atlantis' case with the beheadings but those 'grave hunters' who seek out stuff like this purposely for sick entertainment value.
Its a no from me too, like sassy i have seen far to many take there last breaths and it always saddens me. With steve it would be even more so as he is a celebrity i have come to know and love, but i can see why some would like to see it for the sceintific value(depending of course the value of the footage to that purpose) so i guess its still a 50/50 if it will get aired.
Nicky
id have to say that id watch it......
ont because i have a morbid fascination or anything....... id just like to see what really happened...
i have no issues watching real life tragedies.......
i watch shock video......
I didn't answer the poll question.. but i do find it an intestesting one....
do I personally want to see the documentry that Steve Irwin was working on.... absolutly...
do i personally want to see footage of the actual attack and death... absolutly not.....
but i think that they final decision on whether the footage is made public has to lie with the family and i would respect their wishes either way....if they feel it is a) what he would have wanted and b) gives the public a better insight into the animals in questions then i am sure it is something they will think about......
if the family decide to put it in the public domain....then you get to be the ultimate censor... it is called the on/off button on the television....if you don't agree with it, smiply turn it off...or turn it over
sean xxxxxxxx
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well youre all probably gonna hate me for this but yeah i want to see it!!!
the main reason being.... hes wrestled with crocdiles and deadly snakes since he was 9 years old. I find it hard to believe thats he came that far without any serious injury...
frankly, i really find it hard to believe that the pine thingy on the back of a stingrays tail stabbed him right through the heart... i mean come on?!? I wouldnt want to see him dying, i'd just like to see what happened.
Had it not been a really stupid story i wouldnt want to see it though.
RIP steve, he was great to watch :cry:
Yes I would. Reason being firstly Steve seemed like the kind of guy that wasn't afraid of death. If he said should he be killed then he'd like it to be filmed then I would want to see it. It might sound odd but having watched him for so long he seems like an old friend. I'd want to watch it purely to see how he died.
RIP
If he has stated in the past he wouldn't want his death to be shown then i think out of respect for his memory and family they shouldn't
For me, it would depend on how it is shown. If it is aired, with the consent of his family, in the format it would have been edited had he not died, but showing him being attacked, in exactly the same way as earlier documentaries have shown him being bitten by snakes etc, then I wouldn't have a problem and would be happy to watch it.
If it was edited in a sensationalist style, and advertised with the selling point being his death, then I wouldn't want to see it. Nor would I want to watch it if it was shown against his family's wishes.
I'm sure I've seen programmes before now, documenting things like shark attacks, where either the victim has survivied or where they have died, and amataur video footage of the actual attack (or the confusion of other swimmers while the attack was taking place) has been shown as part of the documentary.
Les x
My 2p worth.
My worry is this- in a few years time once the dust has settled, what happens when it starts to get shown at any opportunity- and his kids happen to switch on and see it when they're eating their tea?
I personally would probably choose not to watch the death of Steve Irwin were it aired on TV. That's my personal choice.
I am sure we have all heard and read of Steve's wish to be filmed "no matter what":
..and I am also sure that most of us would understand and respect the wishes of his widow as to whether or not his final moments should be broadcast.
No matter of peoples' opinions of the risks he took ( I am not slighting them for a minute by the way) he was a great 'entertainer' and his programmes while possibly risqué, were always educational and informative.
Minx x x
well last monday was a sad day for conservation the amount of work
steve has done for wildlife even thou he had his critics he was an entertainer
but it did it with professionalism i very much enjoyed his croc diaries on a sunday
hes was bit like tarzan one of a kind im sure wether they decide to release his last
documentry or not even his last moments wont make any difference lets face it me or u could of been strung by a ray and died nothing gruesome about that is there may the memory of steve irwin be enternal to which he deserves to be remember as a symbol
and icon of australia and the naturalist world may he rest in peace he will be sadly missed
just came across this thread.........personally its a big no from me and a yes from rose so we did a dont know....
i recall a year or two ago watching that beheading, someone sent me a link and like a fool i watched it, the memory has stayed with me till this day, thats all the death ive seen and its more than i ever want to see.
staggy
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Police and wildlife people in Australia have asked for people to stop killing Stingrays. :shock:
Apparently there's been a spate of killings as acts of retribution - true! :shock:
Following on from this the australian authorities are trying to stop people killing stingrays and also stop them being mutilated, many dead stingrays have been found with their tails chopped off. The authorities feel that as well as some form of retribution there is now a fear of stingrays developing that was never there before. Some people are now frightened to go into the sea .
If the film of Steve Irwins death was shown it may act to allay some peoples fears of the stingray ,showing the accident to be just that, rather than the stingray being a monster of the deep. That may stop some of the killing
got to be a no from me
i liked the guy an would like to remember him alive with his croc's
i recall a year or two ago watching that beheading, someone sent me a link and like a fool i watched it, the memory has stayed with me till this day, thats all the death ive seen and its more than i ever want to see.
staggy
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I also watched the beheading of the seconed american, the noise of the poor man who was brutally killed stays with u, even to this day the thought of it knocks me sick.
But Steve Irwin may have wanted people to see his death but i think its up to Terry as to weather or not it should me shown( which she doesnt)
As far as i know it all happened in the space of a cpl of minutes and that he was "in a peacefull state of mind" which is all i need to know.
He was a gr8 bloke and will be sadly missed.
Our thoughts are with his family.
RIP STEVE
