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Originally Posted by analog
Let me be plain: NO ONE (outside of necessary law enforcement, which wasn't an issue, and the family) has any "right" to your side of the story, your retelling of the events, or any info at all on what happened from your point of view or personally known by you. The press can wait until you're able to say what happened, after mourning. I don't care if that means the whole world goes two days just knowing he died without details.
I'm supposed to care about a guy whose response to the death of a person he calls a friend is to do interviews and press conferences and schedule guest appearances on TV shows? Fuck him. That's not a friend. Friends mourn first. Those are fucked up priorities.
Respect for the dead means letting those people who need to, grieve. We are so hung up on instant news of everything and have some odd thought in our minds that we have a right to get every last detail the very second it happens, that no one even cares that he chose press over grieving. He should have waited. Who's going to argue that?
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Originally Posted by cj2112
Steve Irwin was a public figure, as his manager, it's his responsibility to talk w/ the media. That comes w/ the job. I'd imagine if nobody was talking to the press, we'd all be saying that there must be some conspiracy....oh wait we already are, aren't we.
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Also, everyone deals with death in different ways. It helps some people to talk about it and at the same time he had to feel an obligation to the millions of fans to say something. Give the guy a break, he lost a friend.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I'm just hoping the video never gets out to the public for the families sake.
He has a huge body of work there is no need to show his death to gawkers. Hell his kid will never know him, he doesn't have to have someone showing him a youtube of his fathers death a when hes a kid.
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Agreed. People have a sick sensation with gore and death.
I found a great quote from his wikipedia entry:
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These Hitlers use the camouflage of science to make money out of animals… So whenever they murder our animals and call it sustainable use, I'll fight it. Since when has killing a wild animal, eating it or wearing it, ever saved a species?
There are people who butt out their cigarettes in gorilla-paw ashtrays, with wastepaper baskets that were once elephant feet, who have ivory ornaments… who wear cheetah fur. Don't buy these things! Then there'll be no market and the animals won't be killed.
We have domesticated livestock raised for consumption and perfectly good fake leather and fur, so why must we kill wild animals to satisfy the macabre taste of some rich person?
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