the “croc hunter” is dead

Excerpts from BBC News online

- Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast. Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray’s barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. -

- Mr Irwin’s manager John Stainton told the BBC the stingray’s barb had pierced the personality’s heart. “He came over the top of a stingray and a barb, the stingray’s barb went up and put a hole into his heart,” he said. -

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?! Who would have thought that of all the dangerous creatures Steve Irwin dealt with, it would be a bull stingray that would kill him. There had only been 2 reports of human fatality in Australia… I guess 3 now.

I’ve never seen Mr. Irwin’s show… maybe for a few seconds when I’m channel surfing. I don’t know much about him… except that time when he was on the news for bringing his infant son ever so close to a crocodile. Then… why am I spending minutes of my life blogging about him?! Well, his story is the perfect example of life and death… you gotta go when you gotta go. It’s sad but true. Have you ever thought of the fact that you are dying the moment you are born? Some people say that we are but sands in the hourglass of time. I know it sounds depressing.

But then again, it’s not about his death… not about ours. It’s all about how you spend that little blip in time… your life. Steve Irwin may only have lived until 44 but he sure lived one hell of a life.

So, what are you going to do? Sit around all day and watch your life clock tick away OR make the best out of the oh-so little time you have?

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