And I couldn't fall to pieces because the children were there.' It was not risk he was taking,' she said. His wife told of how she had been travelling in a remote part of Tasmania, conducting research, with the couple's children, Bindi Sue, 8, and two-year-old Robert Clarence, when she was told about Irwin's death. His 46 Crocodile Hunter documentaries were watched by 200 million people worldwide, and his death prompted an international outpouring of grief. Irwin's family and friends held a private funeral at his beloved Australia Zoo - where he was also buried.Ī public televised memorial service was held at the zoo's Crocoseum last Wednesday. He just felt life could be dangerous,' she said in the interview, to be broadcast in the United States tomorrow evening. But it wasn't because of any danger from wildlife. US-born Terri Irwin said her 44-year-old husband knew he would not live a long life. That footage shows Irwin swimming above a stingray, while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef, when it lashed out and speared him in the heart with its barbed tail, according to Irwin's manager, John Stainton, who said Irwin pulled the barb from his chest before losing consciousness. What purpose would that serve,' she said, adding that she had not looked at the footage of her husband's death. Asked in an interview with the American ABC news program 20/20 whether the footage of Irwin's September 4 death would ever be aired on television, Terri Irwin was blunt and emphatic.

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