Comments | lagizma: This is not what I came home to post about

lagizma

This is not what I came home to post about

Sep 03, 2006 22:36

I am sobbing right now because Steve Irwin is dead. I walked in from my 10-hour day, sat down on the couch, launched in to an anecdote about the fair, and the E stopped me mid-sentence to point to CNN Headline News.

I will write a better tribute later. I am so, so, so sad.

celeb, tv

Comments 17

grendel1031 September 4 2006, 05:24:39 UTC

Yes, many people satirized his delivery, but he was an original.

I join you in your sadness.

meanbot September 4 2006, 05:38:26 UTC

I think he would be satisfied with the way it happened, and I'm not being sarcastic at all. You just know he would have been pissed to die by getting run over by a bus or something.

musashi270 September 4 2006, 05:52:50 UTC

Exactly. He went out doing the things he loved and would have been so pissed to get old and stuck in a rocker. The person I feel for is his wife; it is only obvious he was her world entire. The baby will never know him and, in some ways, not know what he missed but I really feel bad for her.

lagizma September 5 2006, 08:25:33 UTC

Yes to both of you...see below...

thiswaste September 4 2006, 08:01:44 UTC

I just heard =(

blozor September 4 2006, 12:37:00 UTC

So I'm assuming it would be too soon for me to be an ass all over this bit of news, huh?

To put it as kindly as I can: He had a dangerous profession. He and his family had to accept that worst-case scenario a long time ago. It's sad, but I'm sure they were prepared for the inevitable. I just wonder if they'll be televising that episode.

Damn, I can only stave off being an apathetic, cynical asshole for so long.

blozor September 4 2006, 15:05:48 UTC

So I wandered over to my favorite apathetic, cynical forum and found this great quote:

"Stingrayed throught the heart, and you're to blame! You give 'Crikey!' a bad name!"

lagizma September 5 2006, 08:24:19 UTC

You made me chuckle.

I couldn't ask for Steve to die in a better way. He never grew old and crazy and died in his prime.

But, fuck it, I liked him. A LOT. I seriously loved him, loved his wife, celebrated their child.

So, yeah, he was in a dangerous profession. But he was a fuckin professional, a man with serious skill. He was no dumbass.

Even if he had a higher chance of dying than you or I, can't I be distraught about it? Sad for his wife, who was so obviously his soulmate, his partner in every way? Sad for the daughter who is going to be a major badass even if the American media likes to say she was exposed to too much danger?

Sad for me, who genuinely adored his show and his attitude and saw his movie opening weekend? Sad for my husband who watched every episode during Croc-tober on Animal Planet?

Shit, I'm crying again.

blozor September 5 2006, 12:45:13 UTC

I wasn't implying that you can't be sad over it. I was actually saying it to help ease you a little. I was trying to say that as sad as it is, the family has to have been prepared for the worst. The children are the saddest part, because they aren't old enough to understand or accept that yet. His wife hopefully has accepted the possibility of his demise a long time ago.

I hope you liked my little tribute to him. I didn't want to call him a "Loser of the Week" because he really wasn't. So instead, I did a very Stephen Colbert satire regarding the threat of stingrays. Come on over and have a chuckle. Hopefully I did Colbert justice in my emulation. The entire thing was written with his voice in my head. Except for the first line, that was pure Sam Jackson.

Thread 5

antarcticlust September 4 2006, 13:42:59 UTC

What strikes me is the strangeness of his death- the fact that he was killed by a stingray, which is almost never fatal, not because of the sting or the poison, but because the stinger pierced his heart. It's so strange.

I feel very sad for his family. This situation begs all sorts of ethical questions about what someone's obligations to their children are, or if they should even have children. But he was still a great conservationist beloved the world over, and his loss is sad.

meanbot September 4 2006, 17:37:41 UTC

I was warned about this sort of thing when snorkeling in Australia. Imagine yourself snorkeling in shallow water (where stingrays like to hang out) and you startle one by swimming above it-- your chest would be positioned vertically above the sand as you swim, and that's how it could get you.

I don't know if that's what happened to Steve, but I do know that it has happened in the past and we were specifically warned that although stingrays usually aren't fatal, if one stings you in the chest it can be serious.