Moving farewell to 'wildlife warrior'

Moving farewell to 'wildlife warrior':

"And perhaps some of it stemmed from a sense of guilt: that Irwin received greater approbation outside of Australia, certainly at the start of his television career, than at home."

If it's "kid driven", it's the way it is supposed to be. They are our arrows to the future. We were surprised about how much he had actually accomplished in his short life. We did speak about how people overseas knew more about it that than we did. But that is who we are and that is who Steve Irwin was. The children are being put first because, for them, this is a terrible blow. Young children adored him because he was big, bold and larger than life. Adolescents admired him and adults either were driven crazy by the brash exterior, at times, or just took his persona as a media personality and knew the real Steve Irwin was bigger than all of that. No guilt. We have no guilt. We have an unbelievable sense of loss. An unbelievable belief that he died before his work was done and before he had lived his life. We have a sense that this is in no way right and so our children are doing our understanding and healing for us. This morning we were divided at work as to whether Bindi or Dad was the more powerful speaker. We all felt like we belonged at the memorial service and that was a wonderful achievement for television in Australia. Steve Irwin is someone we very much regret seeing lose his life because he was so full of it and had such an impetus. This morning we accepted we had said the sort of farewell he deserved and had earned but we had this feeling that he just should not have died. I said that in my first post. You do not put Steve Irwin and dead in the same sentence. So the inspiration from his life is alive and well in our children and we shall nurture that. Not demand or drive. Just nurture.