Michael Jackson Died.

I think it's sad that anyone would say "good riddance" --

That poor man grew up in the spotlight with some kind of weird family dynamics that made him crazy -- then he became so rich and famous he could have anything he wanted ... and all he wanted was his childhood back. And of course he could never have it. That's just pitiful. No one should feel glee that MJ had a short, unhappy life. :(

But then, maybe people who can easily just write him off as a weirdo have their own issues that cause them to look at the world in such a narrow and label-conscience way.

For me, I am sad that as a grown-up MJ couldn't find peace. And I'm grateful to him for some rockin' songs that made up a fun part of the soundtrack of my youth.
 
Don't take this wrong, folks, but if he were going to die young, he should have died 10 years ago. He would have been remembered only for what he accomplished.

I miss the person he was (I remember the kid) but not the person he became.
 
Well said, Inky.

I feel mostly pity for Michael Jackson. Who knows what went on in that messed-up mind of his? What kind of life was that? Of course he made his own choices as an adult. But fame and fortune have made mincemeat out of better characters than his, and who is any one of us to assume we would have been affected any differently?

I am sad that his soul was apparently sacrificed on the altar of his talent, and that his life was over before he ever found any apparent peace. :(
 
EveningStar said:
Don't take this wrong, folks, but if he were going to die young, he should have died 10 years ago. He would have been remembered only for what he accomplished.

I miss the person he was (I remember the kid) but not the person he became.
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As for missing him, I won't miss him; I don't know him. I just think that while there's life, there's hope. There was always hope that something would have unlocked the key to his sad soul and let him be free of whatever made him so crazy. Now ... who knows?
Sunrise said:
Well said, Inky.

I feel mostly pity for Michael Jackson. Who knows what went on in that messed-up mind of his? What kind of life was that? Of course he made his own choices as an adult. But fame and fortune have made mincemeat out of better characters than his, and who is any one of us to assume we would have been affected any differently?

I am sad that his soul was apparently sacrificed on the altar of his talent, and that his life was over before he ever found any apparent peace. :(
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Thanks, Sunrise. I feel exactly the same way.
 
Amen, Jax and John!

Even if you didn't like him - as a musician, person, whatever - you still cannot not be sad for his family and friends, especially his three kids!

My sister Adele just told me that they're saying now that he had a live-in doctor, who was in charge of giving him his medication for whatever. Apparently, he fled while MJ was at the hospital or something, and now they're saying it's suspicious, and that perhaps he'd given him too much morphine or whatever, which caused the heart failure. That's not confirmed yet, but they have to wait for the autopsy for that, I think.

But you must admit, it's just as suspicious as OJ's van chase! :rolleyes:
 
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^^Actually, they're now saying that he died of homicide.
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Yeah, that's what I said ... basically. : P They're now saying that the doctor is back in LA and talking to the police, but now they're doing a toxicology test on his body because of the possibility, but those results'll take six to eight weeks.
 
Oh my goodness, that is even more sad. :(

Do they think the dr meant to kill him, or was just giving him ever what drugs he asked for, like that dr that prescribed so many drugs for Elvis Presley?
 
inkspot said:
Oh my goodness, that is even more sad. :(

Do they think the dr meant to kill him, or was just giving him ever what drugs he asked for, like that dr that prescribed so many drugs for Elvis Presley?
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I'm not sure ... it's very suspicious though that he was with MJ as he died - literally, giving him CPR, &c., as the ambulance came - and then ran off. Though he always could have just panicked and ran off, even if it was an accident. It's all very murky. The police haven't said yet what's happened since they found him.
 
That day I refused to believe it too... I saw in MSN, in some friend's nickname:

Michael Jackson R.I.P. ?

¿QUÉ?

As undeniable as it is his talent for dancing and singing, and the influence he has had on the pop music and culture, those are the memories that will keep him alive still, also the person he was before turning into... well -.-

Gee... I remember when I was a kid and watched, astounded, his videos... though a little scared by Thriller, but still I enjoyed it.

Me and my brother have been grieving some while for him... Ha, that metal heart in us has yielded to a softer voice.

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This is intense ...
From his Wikipedia page. The only thing I can tell may be incorrect is about not finding the doctor, but my source (PerezHilton, via my sister, Adele, who has been on it all day ... :rolleyes:) may be wrong.

On June 25, 2009, Jackson collapsed at a rented home in Holmby Hills in Los Angeles. Attempts at resuscitating him by his personal physician were unsuccessful.[163] Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics received a 911 call at 12:21 pm (PDT),[164] and arrived nine minutes later at Jackson's location. He was reportedly not breathing and CPR was performed.[165] Resuscitation efforts continued both en route to the UCLA Medical Center, and for an hour further after arriving at approximately 1:14 pm (20:14 UTC).[163] He was noted to have already been in cardiac arrest by the paramedics who attended his house.[165] Jackson was pronounced dead at about 2:26 pm local time (21:26 UTC).[166] Many news organizations were generally very cautious about the initial reports of his death.[167]



The cause of death has not yet been determined. The case was transferred to the Los Angeles County Coroner for investigation.[163] Jackson's body was transported by helicopter from UCLA to the LA Coroner's offices in Boyle Heights.[168][169] The autopsy was scheduled for Friday, June 26, 2009.[166] A final verdict on Michael Jackson's autopsy will only be possible after the toxicology test results are confirmed, which could take six to eight weeks.[170] It has been reported that police are searching for Michael Jackson's personal doctor, currently missing, after the star's family suggested he died because of a drug overdose of Demerol, an opioid similar to morphine.[171]
Jackson's death caused a large-scale outpouring of grief among fans, as they gathered outside the UCLA Medical Center and his Holmby Hills home.[172] Fans also gathered in New York City outside the Apollo Theater[173] and in Detroit outside Hitsville U.S.A., the old Motown headquarters – now the Motown Museum – where fans created a shrine.[174] A small crowd which included the city's mayor also gathered outside of Jackson's childhood home in Gary.[175]
News of Jackson's death spread quickly online, causing many websites to experience technical difficulties following the unanticipated swell of users. Google announced technical difficulties after a sudden increase in searches for "Michael Jackson" led the company to believe it was under attack from hackers, while social networking site Twitter reported a crash after record numbers of users used the site to spread the news of Jackson's death.[176] AIM, an instant messaging service operated by America Online, collapsed for forty minutes.[177] The company called it a "seminal moment in Internet history" and added "We've never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth."[177] Wikipedia also experienced technical difficulties, and crashed at 3:15 PDT, reportedly due to excessive edits and user overload.[167]
In the hours following Jackson's death, his record sales increased dramatically. His album Thriller climbed to number one on the American iTunes music chart, while another eight have made it into the top 40.[178] In the UK, where Jackson would have performed in less than three weeks, his albums occupied 14 of the top 20 places on the Amazon.co.uk sales chart with Off The Wall topping the chart. Nine of his albums were featured on the American iTunes Top 10 chart, including Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, and 3 compilations. In the UK iTunes store on June 26, thirty-nine of Jackson's songs were in the Top 100 best selling songs list, in addition to four Jackson 5 songs. Eight of his albums took over the top ten downloaded albums and the top 5 video downloads were all Michael Jackson videos. Along with this he also entered into the top top ten single downloads with "Man in the Mirror".[179]
Less than four months before Jackson's death one of his biographers, Ian Halperin, revealed that Jackson had a secret library of over 100 unreleased songs which he planned to release after his death to support his children. [180]
 
It really is quite sad. I mean, it's sad when anyone dies, especially so unexpectedly, but he was (is) such a musical legend. It came as a complete surprise to me.
It seemed like a weird coincidence, but all this past week at the worksite I was at during my mission trip, my sister and her friend were doing Michael Jackson "impersonations" (basically just dancing around and doing a high pitched laugh) and the day before while playing Apples to Apples, someone put down the Michael Jackson card and then it won the round.
But yeah, quite sad.
 
Yeah, its sad that he died. I feel bad for his kids and both his ex-wives :((
He was a talented person and I feel bad for him because I heard he has had a really bad childhood. Or to put it a different way I feel bad that he really didn't have a childhood at all. His dad pushed his too hard. :(
 
I found this out at camp and then in a time of about 5 minutes just about everyone in the entire camp knew!

It is sad when someone dies, especially if they have kids.

that is alot of website overloads.:eek:
 
I jokingly said after learning that Farrah Fawcet died, 'OK, who's next?' Celebrities, it seems, die in threes. That thought shook me when I learned that Michael Jackson died on the same day. I was driving in my car when I heard the djs breaking the news. A piece of my childhood was gone.

Say what you will about his personal life, as many people are saying, he revolutionized music. No music video has surpassed the brilliance of Thriller. The signature dance is still being done to this day. Only a few years ago, there was a CG version of that dance in a Superbowl ad.

And now, three children have lost their father. I pray for them most of all. Prince, Paris, and Prince II (?) need to be in our prayers as should teh entire Jackson family.

And now to share my own MJ experience:

My family went to DisneyWorld for four days when I was a kid (I think it was 1985). One day, I was walking with my aunt and uncle in the area behind Epcot Center (with the different countries--I think it was called teh World Showcase) when I realized we were walking behind a bunch of men. I didn't realize it at first, but the men were surrounding Michael Jackson.

I never met him, but I remember my aunt got upset when she and one of the member of his entourage bumped their feet, causing my aunt to trip a little, but not fall down. The man, though, just kept on walking oblivious to her, not even turning around to say sorry. He was there, I later learned, to do some filming for a Disney World ride called "CAptain EO."

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And now, something terribly sad - apparently, his two oldest children aren't his. They were from a sperm donor, and their mother - MJ's wife after Elvis' daughter - doesn't want them in her life. How horrible of her! It's not like they were his kids and not hers! It is her choice, but that's still so cruel.
 
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