From the BBC
Australian environmentalist and television personality Steve Irwin has died during a diving accident.
Mr Irwin, 44, was killed by a stingray barb to the chest while he was filming an underwater documentary in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.
I find this news depresses me more than I might have expected, and I have no appetite for the obvious snide one-liners.
Irwin was a wonderful character: the personification of everything I love about Australia – our tearaway younger brothers.
More than that: he had an air of indestructibility about him, which, like far too many things for my liking, turned out to be an illusion.
Ironically, considering all of the deadly animals he handled on a near-daily basis, death-by-stingray is apparently quite rare.
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