The Crocodile Hunter killed by Stingray

Spasmolytic · 09-05-2006, 01:30 AM

Wait, didn't you post a sad smilie earlier saying that the event single-handedly ruined your night?

It's no different than a tragic movie or book. We all feel we knew his story as that of a likeable, ambitious family man, and were therefore moved by its tragic end.

Typhoid · 09-05-2006, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Spasmolytic

Wait, didn't you post a sad smilie earlier saying that the event single-handedly ruined your night?

Internet sarcasm.
I forgot it doesnt portray well.

Dylflon · 09-05-2006, 04:12 AM

The reason we feel sad when celebrties die is because even though we don't know them, they have made an impact in our own personal universe.

Sure a million people in Africa die a day but it can't hit home because to us they are as good as non-existant because they've never made any form of entrance into our own lives. If we met or even saw an interview featuring a bunch of Rwandans and then found out they all died, this would mean something to us because they have left a foot print in our indivudual universes.

Even if it's not a personal connection, people on TV still make a connection with our lives, allowing us to glimpse into their world and see what they are all about.

They make an impact, even if it's a small one.

That's why it's okay to be sad when they die.

Happydude · 09-05-2006, 07:45 AM

i read about this about a minute after it was posted in the newspaper online.

very sad news...the guy was great.

Crash · 09-05-2006, 03:58 PM

the guy was the man, the news sucks anyway you cut it. No one wanted that to happen. He was a very likable guy, and it is sad.

Professor S · 09-05-2006, 05:53 PM

I've never been a big fan of Irwin, but thinking about how he died, it reminded me of how he lived. This guys did amazing things and saw amazing places. He lived a great life and for him to die while doing what he loved is kind of fitting and will only solidify his legend (at least in animal-dude circles). At least it was quick and he got more out his short life than most of us ever will from our long ones.

thatmariolover · 09-05-2006, 07:38 PM

I guess I just find it odd how bothered I am by his death. I mean, there have been a lot of other people that have died that I know of, but none of them really bothered me. I never really watched him on TV very often (two or three times ever), and yet his death is just disturbing to me. A freak accident; he could have been lacerated or stabbed anywhere else on his body (legs are most common for Stingray attacks), but he was stabbed through the heart. And the fact that he was videotaped by collegues while it happened - that just makes it even more exceptionally disturbing to me.

At any rate, not a huge impact on my life or anything; but I still feel inexplicably bothered by how he died.