<< especially for the late Mister Irwin's wife and children. <<

Exactly. Unless he was a total dunderhead, he knew the chances he was taking and that his luck couldn't hold out forever, but he did it all anyway. Hey, more power to ya and, now that you've stepped off life's curb, let me say that you put on a fun show for us while it lasted and, if we meet in Heaven, I'll buy ya a Coke. But the kids ... them I feel sorry for in the here-and-now.

There was a little item in today's paper about how the Animal Planet brass, several years ago, talked about the fact that Irwin was a dead duck sooner or later and made up some contingency plans for The Fateful Day.