Grizzly Man

Did Timothy ‘get what he deserved’, as the helicopter pilot who helped retrieve his bones a few days after he died said?

I think that was a horrible thing for the helicopter pilot to say, and I was actually offended by it. I don't think it's ever okay to say someone "deserves" death, especially someone who hasn't harmed anyone else. In Timothy's case, he was just someone who was very passionate about what he did. He wanted to protect and raise awareness of the importance of protecting the bears. Though sometimes he may have seemed a little crazy, thinking he was a bear and such, he was harmless to them, and it was a really sad thing that when he overstayed the summer, a grumpy bear got angry. It was sad that his girlfriend died with him, but that too wasn't his fault. She chose to stay with him, and it was just accidental and tragic that they both died.

I'm even one who believes in karma - what goes around, comes around. In Timothy's case, though, though he may have put himself in a situation in which it was possible and even probable that he'd get hurt, it is unfair and very ignorant to say he deserved such a fate.