I think we're alking about different incidents, Marts. Timothy Treadwell was killed, along with his girlfriend.
Are you sure that it took him 2 hours to die, BOD? I thought it was good of them not to broadcast the sound from when they were attacked.
The documentary maker made the point that Treadwell talked of the bears as his friends, but that Grizzlies were never really your friends, seemed to think of him as a bit of a fool. What do you think? From my point of view he seems to be looking for martyrdom, but he knows very well what he's doing. He frequently talks about the danger he's in, and knows that bears from other areas could be very dangerous to him. The local bears, who he knew individually, could have been friends to him in the same way as a dog can be a friend, or simply in the sense of having some basic mutual understanding. They lived together for 13 summers, after all, and left him alone, so it's fair to assume that they saw him as another bear. In the end, he knew bears better than anyone and made his own choices, and I find him at least a little inspirational, and what he did therefore worthwhile.