Irwin death-video will not be shown
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's widow says she has not seen the film of her husband's death and that it will never be shown on television.
"What purpose would that serve?" Terri Irwin said in an interview on ABC scheduled to shown on television in the US and Australia.
Irwin, 44, died on September 4 when a stingray's barb pierced his chest while he filmed a TV show on the Great Barrier Reef.
Irwin's friend and business partner, John Stainton, has seen the film. He said he never wants to see it again and does not want anyone else to see it, either. "It's just a horrible piece of film tape," he said.
American-born Terri Irwin said she was on a research trip in Australia with the couple's two children, eight-year-old daughter Bindi and two-year-old son Bob, when her brother-in-law reached her with the news.
"I remember thinking, 'Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it,"' she said. "I looked out the window, and Bindi was skipping, skipping along outside the window. And I thought, 'Oh, my children. He wouldn't have wanted to leave the children.' And I knew it was an accident. It was an accident so stupid. It was like running with a pencil."
She said it was important for her family to continue the work her husband did in teaching the world about wildlife.
The mother-of-two said she was getting through her grief "one minute at a time".
She said her son Bob recently took a screwdriver out of the drawer and said he was going to fix the family's motorbike.
"Off he goes, very carefully carrying it like it was a lit candle," she said. "Goes up to the motorbike and starts poking at it. I said, 'what are you doing to the motorbike?' He said, 'I'm fixing the motorbike so daddy can drive it from heaven'."
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