Decrying the provocation of dangerous and deadly animals in order to get good video is hardly the same as decrying the "touching of nature because its too risky."
Touch nature all you want.
But when you die because you touch it too much and in very risky ways then the foolishness of that touching is painfully obvious.
And to hear people then praise such foolishness as if it were a good thing is too much too bear in silence.
This guy's cheap thrills for the camera eventually killed him. His death should serve as a warning not to be so foolish. Instead we have people acting as if his death by animal was unexpected and a big crying shame.
A nice human being with a family died. And it was by taking a totally avoiable risk that he died. And the kids won't know their dad as they grow up. Hopefully some people headed for similar fates will learn that thrill seeking is not all its cracked up to be and quit {fill in whatever dangerous habit here} before its too late.
Where are your facts and statistics?
Stingray deaths rare and agonizing
Injuries caused by stingrays are relatively common but fatalities are extremely rare, with experts saying there are only one or two known cases in recorded Australian history.
You're either grossly misinformed or a pathetic shell of a human being. Or perhaps both.
Irwin didn't "touch" anything before his death. He was killed by a freak accident of nature, one which has been known to have happened *three times* in Australian medical history (e.g., by a stingray). The stingray approached him from the bottom, he was not "touching" it.
In the 29 days before his death, "foolish" Irwin personally tagged 49 crocodiles for a "foolish" Aussie conservation program, said to be a probable world record in the "fooish" conservation community.
Note that he was not "foolishly" killed by a crocodile.