No.
I’d watch because I’m having a hard time imagining how this happened. I’ve been half-assedly looking around for stingray videos to see how they use their barbs for defense, but I havn’t found anything.
I would only watch it if I were on the board of inquest. In other words, NFW.
I wish there was a way to keep the video private, but in this day and age there isn’t. The Irwin family is probably feeling pressure to release the video before the inevitable pirated copies come out.
I would not be surprised if faked videos are out there. 
Maybe Steve would have wanted it released, maybe not. The sad thing is that his family does not really control this most private of matters. It’s bad enough they’ve lost a son, husband and father, now it has to be rubbed in their faces on the tube 24x7 on 5,000 cable channels. Modern life sucks sometimes.
I would not watch it intentionally. I have no desire to see a person die.
I thought he was a great guy, but/and I have no desire to see his death. I don’t have a desire to see anyone’s death, for that matter.
I was recently reading about the fact that the guy who is now famous for running the “Girls Gone Wild” empire had previously put out a video of people being killed or maimed in freak accidents and what not, and I remember seeing the commercials for that video back when it was being promoted several years ago. The commercial always ended with someone on a train platform inadvertently stepping in front of a train, and even that image (which cut off before the person was killed, obviously) was extremely disturbing to me. I don’t deal well with death, I suppose.
I’d probably watch, and I wouldn’t feel bad about it. His life was doing exactly that sort of thing, and it was an essential part of his work. And, if the quote above is true, he would have wanted it taped.
It’s odd that so many want to actively avoid — and even supress — the event, as though it were okay to let him broadcast for years, creating a distorted picture of wild animals and human mortality, and then hide the real ramifications of playing with deadly critters. He wasn’t an innocent bystander, and he wasn’t an unlucky fellow who happened to take a wrong step by a train; he has knowingly engaged in very dangerous behavior and broadcasted it to the world. If he was just some random fella who had a stroke of bad luck, then it would be different. If he had died when not making a documentary, then it would be different.
I once saw some guy drown on a National Geographic show. A group was kyaking (sp?) in whitewater and one of them went down and never came back up. It was still part of the documentary, and it was neither disrespectful nor macabre, and it certainly wasn’t sensationalist. It was part of what happened — a very real part of what happened — and it should have been included just as it was.
I can conceive of no circumstances under which I would watch the tape. To distribute it is a such a fundamental invasion of his family’s privacy as to deserve a sound thrashing; to watch is is ghoulish.
So far I’ve successfully suppressed the rubber-necking part of my psyche by refusing to watch all these “death tapes.” I refused to watch the videos of Daniel Pearl or that other bastard (whose name escapes me) getting their respective heads sawed off because I wanted to be able to sleep at night. Had no desire to view the still photos of Di’s car wreck or Nicole Simpson’s exsanguinated body. Will I watch Steve’s death video? No!
No.
Note: Nick Berg! (And I meant to call him a “poor bastard” instead of a “bastard.” I don’t have anything against the kid.)
I’d watch it if only because he’d want us to. His big part of his schtick was getting animals to get defensive and start displaying aggression. Ostensibly so we’d all know the difference between a salty that wants to eat you as opposed to one who doesn’t yet know you’re there.
I know it’s sick, but I can almost hear Terri narrating it:
Just like you are sick for posting this, I am sick for sitting here laughing my ass off.
Except his family, or at least his wife, says that they want it to be released.
I don’t have a desire to see the video but now I’m curious about the ability of a stingray ray to jab someone. I didn’t realize the name was literal. If I were to come across such an animal I would want to know what to avoid. I have to believe it was a million to one shot but then Mr. Irwin was prone to getting too close to the subject.
And I don’t see why it would end up on the internet unless the film crew released it.
I’ll watch it. Hopefully it will teach me - and millions of other people - what not to do with a stingray.
I wonder how many people (and not just here) who have no desire to watch the video if/when it becomes available, have no problem watching Hollywood-fake deaths on television and in movies?
FWIW, if the video becomes available, I may see it in my own good time. I have no plans to sit on the Internet doorstep waiting for its release.
Different when it’s real, somehow. I know I still get a bit queasy thinking back to when I saw Dale Earnhardt get killed on live broadcast TV. And I didn’t even realize it at the time. “And there’s our winner! Time to switch off & skip the boring post-race crap … Wow, was that Earnhardt piling into the wall in the background? Hope he’s OK … <click>”
But I’m a big softy … I have no complaints about the tape being released, if that’s the decision that’s made. But I won’t be watching, ever.
Totally. I’m morbid like that.
Absolutely, but I wouldn’t be so quick to assume that it will be released. Probably, but not necessarily.
No, unless it’s part of a documentary that Terri is either a part of or at least okay with.