Posted on 09/05/2006 7:36:47 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
THE footage of Steve Irwin's death should be destroyed, his manager and friend John Stainton said today.
"I would never want that tape shown," Stainton told CNN talk show host Larry King.
"It should be destroyed.
"At the moment it is in police custody for evidence. There's a coroner's inquest taking place at the moment.
"When that is finally released it will never see the light of day.
"Never. Ever.
"I actually saw it and I don't want to see it again."
Irwin, 44, died on Monday when stabbed in the chest by a stingray barb while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef and Stainton has said footage of the incident is "terrible".
The footage shows Irwin pulling the barb out of his chest before dying.
While Stainton wants the footage kept under wraps, media experts say it may soon be circulating on the internet.
"The key point is once there's something on film, it's impossible to keep it contained," Paul Levinson, chairman of Fordham University's Department of Communication and Media Studies, said.
Mr Stainton, who broke down several times during the CNN interview, said Irwin's wife, Terri, was struggling with her husband's death.
When King asked a teary Stainton how Terri was doing, Mr Stainton replied: "A lot worse than me".
Mr Stainton told how he travelled with Irwin's body in a caske
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Please ping me if you find out. Also if it is a state funeral, maybe there will be a way to see the public part of it on the web or tv.
I thought I would be able to stomach the Nick Berg beheading video, but at that precise moment, I felt like I was kicked in the stomach by a horse.
You know.......that's tacky! It's one thing I guess if he wants the video shown but do they need to show him all sprawled out in death?
Terrible. Just awful. I saw video on CNN those medics wheeling him to the ambulance, but you really couldn't see much of anything beyond the ambulance itself and the yellow jackets.
Like I said, the ghouls in the media can't wait to get their filthy hands on the video and show it in a continuous loop over and over again in split screen while they talk about the legacy of Steve Irwin.
There will be NO educational value to take away from it.
Airing that film would be for one purpose: ratings/money.
This cannot happen; not without his family's authorization.
I agree with both of you.
Good night... at least for a while. :)
Looks like it already is.
what do you mean? You think someone has it?
We'll have to remember to thank the apostle John and the precious Marys, etc., for bearing up witnessing the worst.
Witnessing suffering teaches us to cling to what saves us from it, alright. It was John that a few years later got to see the Revelation of his suffering Savior and King. He had some stomach issues, too!
I can't help but wonder if he would have survived had he left that barb in place . Impaled objects should never be removed outside of an operating room.
I meant they're already gang busting to get pictures out of him - they didn't wait for the family's authorization to do that.
The alleged photo linked in 120 is Princess Diana, I believe, not Steve Irwin (look at the url and the image title).
It doesn't look real, though. It might be a fake.
Oops you're right!!!! My bad, I saw the blond hair and didn't stop to look...........sorry!
Thank goodness, if something gets out that sweet little Bindi is not ready to see, I just don't know if I could contain myself. I would not wish good things for this person.
Hindsight is a marvelous thing. I wonder what we would do put in the same situation...
There are many ways to witness suffering. Jesus' death was the Ultimate Suffering, and whether many of that time knew it or not, His death taught many lessons beyond Suffering on the Cross.
Steve's suffering was a rare occurance that will happen to so few of us.
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