Video of Irwin death given to wife

[Canuck_Buck]

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Australian officials have handed the video of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's fatal encounter with a stingray to his family and destroyed any remaining copies to prevent the grisly footage from being made public, a state coroner said Thursday.

Queensland State Coroner Michael Barnes said police gave the original film of Irwin's death to his wife, Terri, in late December and that all copies of the tape, which was shot during the filming of a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef, had been destroyed.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/03/irwin.video.ap/index.html

In the age of popular Internet video sharing networks YouTube and My Space, speculation had been rife that footage of Irwin's death could eventually be made public. But in an interview with U.S. television last September, Terri Irwin, of Eugene, Oregon, said the video should never see the light of day.

"What purpose would that serve?" she said in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, adding that she herself had not seen the video.

.....anyone disagree with Terry ? ....is there any documented video of a sting ray attack on a human ?

[Champlain Islander]

[BillyMack]

It should be destroyed.

Why on earth would anyone wanna keep it around? I know I wouldn't want a tape of my wife's death (God forbid) lying around. Or locked up for that matter.

[Aught Six]

It's none of our business to see the footage of his death. And, with his wife being the next of kin, it's all of her business to determine what happens to the film.

This isn't a movie--it's a person'slife. The couch potato culture of demanding personal and private footage makes me sick. You want to see someone die of a stingray attack? Get in the water...

[vc1111]

You want to see someone die of a stingray attack? Get in the water...

Well done, Sixter, well done.