A Meaningful Life

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by Lizette Aguilera1 view·Updated Nov 15, 2020
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  1. Hello, someone who I feel there's a meaningful life in
  2. a big inspiration toe Live by is none other than
  3. the Australian zookeeper Steve Irwin.
  4. Steve Urban is probably best known by many of you
  5. as the crocodile hunter.
  6. He was a naturalist, zoologist, television personality, wildlife expert, environmentalists
  7. and a conservationist.
  8. His family is his wife, Terri.
  9. His daughter Bendy, and his son Robert, which are pictured
  10. right at the bottom.
  11. Unfortunately, he died on September 4, 2006, at the age
  12. of 44 my being pierced in the chest by a
  13. stingray barb, all filming in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
  14. His death became international news was met with expressions of
  15. shock and grief by many of fans.
  16. Um, the media and non profit organizations.
  17. Also, numerous parks, zoos, streets and even an asteroid have
  18. been named in his honor accomplishments that he made in
  19. his life.
  20. That I feel make it meaningful is that he discovered
  21. new turtle species.
  22. Steve Irwin and his father, Bob Irwin, spotted a specimen
  23. on a crocodile catching trip and on in an Australian
  24. river in 1990.
  25. They had never seen it before, so they took a
  26. picture and sentenced to a turtle expert, and then the
  27. turtle expert verified that it was indeed a new species.
  28. So Steve Irwin ended up getting to name it, and
  29. he named it Irwin's turtle, so that's pretty cool.
  30. Awards that he won are the Centenary medal towards Expert
  31. in the year, Queensland Australian of the Year, a junk
  32. professorship and many TV awards.
  33. He also did many TV shows.
  34. The one that he's best known for is the croc
  35. crocodile hunter Siri's.
  36. He was also part of the world's deadliest Snakes, and
  37. then, unfortunately, the one that he was filming when he
  38. passed was Ocean's deadliest.
  39. He was also part of many media campaigns, and um
  40. was part of a search and rescue in Mexico and
  41. then also took over the family business, which was the
  42. Australia Zoo.
  43. But I think the greatest accomplishment that he did in
  44. his life was doing what he loved.
  45. Steve Irwin was known for being a courageous and an
  46. individual who was connected to nature like no other.
  47. He was known for risking his life for the animals
  48. that he loved more than anything in the world.
  49. Well, besides his family, of course, no matter how many
  50. times he got bit cut or anything else like that,
  51. he would just shake it off and he would be
  52. back catching animals.
  53. His family would always be by his side, no matter
  54. how crazy his ideas were.
  55. And it would rely on that support.
  56. And here is just some pictures.
  57. Steve Irwin with a warm bat and then the documentary
  58. Siri's The Crocodile Hunter.
  59. And then right at the bottom is Irwin's turtle, the
  60. turtle that he discovered with his father.
  61. Then I like to say that I felt that he
  62. left behind would be, um, right outside the Australia Zoo.
  63. The road used to be called Glass House Mountains Road,
  64. and it was later renamed Steve Irwin Way, and then
  65. also a wildlife preserve was named after him.
  66. The steps that he took, um, to get to his
  67. accomplishment would, um, probably be that, um, he only had
  68. a high school diploma.
  69. Hey, never got around to getting his college diploma, because
  70. right out of school, he started to help animals.
  71. Then he took over the family, um, business, um which,
  72. um, him Steve and his wife, Terri, worked tirelessly to
  73. improve and expand the wildlife park and later renamed it
  74. the Australia Zoo.
  75. And then, instead of a honeymoon, um, Steve and his
  76. wife, um, the couple embarked on filming Ah wildlife documentary
  77. while relooking a problem crocodile in far north Queensland, where
  78. they live, And the show was so successful that it
  79. turned into the syriza crocodile hunter.
  80. And then the Siri's became an international broadcast wildlife documentary
  81. hit on.
  82. That's where we all majority know him from.
  83. And then they also created a charity called the Australia
  84. Zoo Wildlife Warriors, and this was to arrange, and this
  85. was to raise awareness to show that animals need help
  86. and to raise money for them.
  87. He was also part of many projects, Um, first being
  88. the Tasmanian Devil Conservation.
  89. Um, this is a program that is trying to save
  90. the endangered devil population by trying to find a cure
  91. to a disease called Devil Facial Tumor disease, which has
  92. and is still killing the Tasmanian devil population.
  93. Another is the Asian elephant conservation.
  94. This is a program that is helping save the Asian
  95. elephants, which are becoming extinct.
  96. They're trying to save them by trying to prevent their
  97. habitat from being destroyed and trying to stop people from
  98. killing them.
  99. Another is the Australia Wildlife Hospital.
  100. It was opened in March 2004 in Lynn Irwin's Memory,
  101. which is Steve Irwin's mother.
  102. This is a hospital, which takes in her animals and
  103. nurses them back to health to release them back into
  104. the wild.
  105. Another is the orangutan conservation.
  106. This program.
  107. This program helps their range attains by saving their homes
  108. and by raising orphaned orangutan toe layer release to later
  109. be released in the wild when they're strong enough.
  110. Another is the black rhino Conservation.
  111. This program tries to save the black grounds by keeping
  112. track of the rhinos, keeping the people away from them
  113. so they don't kill them for their horns and also
  114. by funding research.
  115. Another is the cheetah Conservation.
  116. This program helps to helps the endangered cheetahs by relocating
  117. them to parts of the wild and trying to keep
  118. the humans from interacting with the cheetahs so the cheetahs
  119. don't get killed.
  120. The last one is the whale research.
  121. This is a program that tries to save and help
  122. Wales by tracking them and doing research without harming them
  123. in any way.
  124. So what makes his life meaningful?
  125. Um, I chose Steve Irwin because he did what he
  126. loved the most and turned it into a living.
  127. So he got paid for what he loved to do.
  128. Um, a quote, um, that I took from him.
  129. And I have no fear of losing my life.
  130. If I have to save a koala or a crocodile
  131. or kangaroo or snake, May I will save it.
  132. Me being an environmental biology major with having a focus
  133. on animals.
  134. He's one of my biggest role models.
  135. Thio live by, um, and then for many of you,
  136. the animal aspect of his life was probably not intriguing
  137. and inspires you.
  138. But I feel what what aspect of his life should
  139. inspire most of us is that he's doing what he
  140. loves. I'm making a living out of it, like, Why
  141. don't we all want to do something that we all
  142. love and also get paid for it to be successful
  143. in life?
  144. So his life, um, must definitely takes the Richard Taylor
  145. point of view where his life is probably is seen
  146. as objectively meaningless because he's not taking on God's ways
  147. or, according to Susan Wolf not doing projects of worth,
  148. except maybe his relationship with his family and non humans,
  149. like all the animals he works with, Um, but most
  150. importantly, his life is subjectively meaningful because he's doing what
  151. he loves and what he wants to dio and succeeding
  152. in it.
  153. And he's creating his own purpose, paths and goals and
  154. made so many good things out of it.
  155. So he is why I chose him to be a
  156. meaningful life to live by.
  157. Thank you.