His death is a major bummer, but my wife pointed something out. He died doing what he loved to do. A lot to be said about that.
Strangely enough one of my co-workers is a online gamer and plays WoW. He was on Ventrillo (an internet voice chat program) and they were talking about it. Some guy logged on and said "What? Steve Irwin died?". He was told yes, and he said "That's my uncle". Said person logged off and came back a few minutes later saying "It's true, Uncle Steve is dead!". He went on to wonder how he had to find out on the internet that this had happened. No telling if this person was telling the truth (my co-worker swears this is how the conversation went, and he has no profit in lying to me), but if that's true then the internet just scared me even more.
Mr. Irwin will be sorely missed. Such a great respect for animals, yet as Tundra said, no illusions about what they were. His brand of unassuming humor was incredible as well. Though he didn't say it, I'll always love the line from "Crocodile Hunter" when the one spook is looking up river and goes "The binoculars have picked up the Discovery Channel!"
I know his shows have sparked an interest in wildlife in my daughter. Many a night we've sat down and watched one of Steve's programs.
