http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=384
Footage of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin being killed by a stingray will be shown on TV to honour his wishes.
The daredevil’s cameramen captured the moment yesterday when the Aussie legend was stabbed through the heart by the fish’s deadly barbed tail.
Steve had always ordered his crew to carry on filming even if he was mauled to death.
So the graphic footage showing Steve, 44, being speared to death off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is set for a sensational broadcast.
Queensland Police seized the tapes as the death sent shockwaves around the world.
But it is understood Steve’s family have vowed to grant the real-life Crocodile Dundee his "dying wish".
Steve famously said: "My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. Even if it’s shaky or slightly out of focus, I don’t give a rip!
"Even if a big big old alligator is chewing me up I want to go down and go, ‘Crikey!’ just before I die. That would be the ultimate for me."
An insider said: "This is exactly what Steve would have wanted. He knew the dangers and was totally up for the cameras to get everything."
Steve became a worldwide star thanks to cult show The Crocodile Hunter having a global audience of 500million in 126 countries.
In Britain, where his adventures are followed by an army or young fans, there were reports of youngsters weeping in schools as the news spread in the early morning.
Friend and producer John Stainton said Steve was swimming over the top of a giant stingray in shallow water when the normally placid stingray speared him in the chest.
Steve was hauled onto his research boat – Croc One – but paramedics could not revive him.
Bad weather had stopped filming for Steve’s new do entary – ironically called Ocean’s Deadliest.
He decided to shoot footage for an upcoming series hosted by daughter Bindi Sue, eight, who is just as passionate about wildlife as her dad.
That programe features footage of tiger sharks, turtles and stingrays and involved no apparent risks.
John added: "Bindi’s new TV show is going to premiere next January throughout America and the world.
"It should have been an innocent encounter for a TV show aimed at children. Steve was an integral part of that programme. We will do him proud and continue that effort."
Steve’s American wife, wildlife campaigner Terri, was trekking in Tasmania with their children Bindi Sue and Bob Clarence, two, when news filtered through.
They were last night flying back to the family home in Queensland where the couple ran Australia Zoo.
John said: "As they say, behind every good man is a good woman and she was the brains behind the operation. She’s a strong person."
Mourners were yesterday leaving flowers at the zoo, which was started by Steve’s dad Bob in the 1970s.
Family friend and Aussie PM John Howard led tributes describing Steve as "a huge loss to Australia".
Breaking the news in Australian Parliament, Mr Howard said: "He brought joy and entertainment and excitement to millions of people. He was a one-off character."
Steve is such a big Aussie icon that there’s even talk of a state funeral.
Africa’s great croc hunter Khalid Hassen – who has killed 17,000 of them – said: "Nobody else has done what he did. He was really an outstanding person, he was fearless and a showman."
Pal John added: "He died doing what he loved best. The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet."
I'll watch it. Noting can be worse than this beheading video I saw of some Chechen Rebels calmly cutting the head off of a Russian soldier that they captured.
They calmly started slicing into his neck with a buck knife while he was fully alert and coherent.
Sick .
I think I saw that same video, you could hear some nasty gargling sound. I wasn't expecting that at all, one of my roommates downloaded it off of Kazaa and we had no idea it was coming. Had to be real.
well if thats your last wishes - theres really ntohign anyone else can sayh bout it.
your body, your death, your buisness.
my step-grandmother died of breast cancer - she stipulated she wanted her breasts removed before burial. she did not want her remains to spend forever nuzzled up to cancer.
we honored that wish.
and the wish to burry her in her wedding dress.
however we failed to honor her wish that her husband (my grandpa) not attend the funeral (the wake was ok). Boy do we wish we had listened to her wishes!!!
that man went balistic. he was totally wasted. drunker than I had ever seen him. he climbed into the casket and was singing Danny Boy and kissingf her and screaming... he threw the floral arrangements all over the place and pissed on his brothers when they tried to remove him.
the funeral parlor called the police when he broke the podium.
Plus, who doesn't want to see someone take a stingray barb straight to the heart? That is awesome.
I'm kind of thinking his comments were in jest. I mean, who really wishes that kind of grisly, disturbing sight upon his adoring fans? Just sounds like sort of a rock-star mentality rather than a true dying wish.
It's up to his family what they want to do, but I would hope they'd use good judgment and not show it on broadcast TV.
I mentioned this the other Irwin thread, How many people would want to see it?
It's kinda like the Grizzly Man video that was never released. I would think seeing somebody mauled to death and eaten by a bear would be a lot worse than seeing somebody stabbed by a stingray and (supposedly) going quietly.
Who woulnd't want to see a Fatality of a Stingray vs. man mortal kombat style? I don't think its that bad. There is worse sicker out there.
I would much rather watch someone get mauled than a dude get stabbed by a stingray.
That's sad about your grandfather... the part about him singing Danny Boy got me because that was my Grandpas favorite song. The words to that song get me every time..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7y1h6FRaMPM
Although "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin once remarked in a TV interview that he hoped his death would be caught on camera, the Discovery Channel has said that it will not broadcast footage taken at the time he was fatally attacked by a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef Monday. Journalism ethicists have applauded the decision. Martin Kaplan, a media analyst with the USC/Annenberg School for Communication, told the Associated Press that the footage is tantamount to a snuff film. Samuel Freedman, who teaches media ethics at Columbia, added similarly, "It would be purely illation and necrophilia if anyone were to show this." The footage is currently in the hands of the local coroner's office, which is investigating the death. Which raises the question, what if the tape shows that Irwin could have been warned about the attacking stingray? Or what if he was seen taunting it? What if it shows in some other way that the attack could have been prevented? On Wednesday, Australian survival expert Ray Mears commented, "The voyeurism we are seeing on television has a cost and it's that cost Steve Irwin's family are paying today."
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