All copies of the video of Steve Irwin’s death have been destroyed, according to his widow Terri. (You can read the full interview here.)
So much for the reports that Irwin’s family was planning to “respect his last wishes and allow the harrowing footage to be broadcast.” (The Daily Star, which initially got that rumor rolling, quoted Irwin as once saying, “My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. … Even if a 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.”)
One video that will air is Irwin’s final documentary, “Ocean’s Deadliest,” which he was in the midst of filming when he died. It will debut next Sunday at 8pm, simulcast on Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel.
Anyway, the discussion of the death video reminds me of a poll question I’ve wanted to ask on the blog for a while… but I haven’t, because, well, it’s in extremely poor taste. But, what the heck, I’ll ask it after the jump. Taste doesn’t matter, so long as it’s after the jump, right? :) Like I said, though: extremely poor taste. Seriously. Don’t click the “more…” link if you’re easily offended!
Okay, here’s the question. Remember, you were warned. :)
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January 13th, 2007 at 3:49:24 am
Is it sweeps week for blogs?
January 13th, 2007 at 8:21:43 pm
brendan,
that is in extremely poor taste. You went so far as to pull a question I wrote asking how a friend of yours
passed away since you never made any mention of it though you wrote a ton about the passing…
and you ask this sick question. I guess if you don’t know the person who died, you can say or
write anything you want… I’d expect more of you.
January 13th, 2007 at 8:29:22 pm
Of course it’s in extremely poor taste… I already acknowledged that (in fact, “extremely poor taste” were my exact words), and warned people not to click the link if they didn’t want to read something that was admittedly offensive. Still, feel free to judge me harshly if you wish. But it’s quite a different situation from the circumstance you mention. That was a matter of keeping a piece of information out of the public domain that didn’t belong there. Here, I’m not adding any new information or even raising a new topic of discussion in the public domain. This is already in the public domain. Practically everyone I’ve talked to has an opinion about whether they’d want to see the video. So, again, by all means, feel free to think I never should have asked the question, but it’s not at all the same thing as the situation you mention, and the difference isn’t simply whether I “know the person who died” — whereas that was a matter of privacy, this is purely a matter of taste.