== Real Death, The Final Frontier = Mark Morford

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From Steve Irwin to U.S. soldiers in Iraq, there's still one video you ain't gonna see on YouTube
(By Mark Morford)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/09/22/notes092206.DTL&nl=fix

There is, apparently, videotape of beloved Aussie TV star and naturalist Steve Irwin getting stabbed by the nasty bayonet-like tail of a giant stingray. The video shows Irwin removing the lethal blade from his chest, where it had pierced his heart, just before he loses consciousness and dies almost instantly.

We will, most likely, never see this film. This is not because Irwin had, so far as we know, no chance to utter "Crikey!" one last time before leaping into the Great Crocodile Pit in the Sky.

No, we'll never see it because it is, quite simply, too much. It is more than we can readily handle. It is The Line.

There exists an audio track from the remarkable and wonderfully bizarre documentary film "Grizzly Man," where the hero, Timothy Treadwell, and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard are gruesomely mauled to death by a giant, furious brown bear. ...

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