“Michael was dead before he left the house. I’m suspecting foul play somewhere. He was waving to everybody and telling them he loves them and all the fans at the gate. A few minutes after Michael was out there, he was dead.”
Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson’s father, is reported to have spoken these words. Was Michael Jackson murdered by his doctor or someone else?
Probably not but at this point murder cannot be totally ruled out. At least the possibility of manslaughter should be investigated.
Did MJ OD? Was this an incident of assisted suicide?
He either died of natural causes, accidental drug overdose, suicide, or murder. The whole thing is obviously suspicious and we will never probably learn the real truth of what exactly happened.
Thus, questions will remain unanswered. Jackson wasn’t in great health, but he was not expected die.
He was injected with Demerol before his death and the 911 transcript states that the doctor who provided the injection was also with Jackson when he suffered his heart attack.
According to Health Grades, a health care ratings company, Dr. Murray is board certified in neither of his two specialties, internal medicine and cardiology.
A qualified, competent doctor would know what an acceptable dose of Demerol is. Did this doctor intentionally gave Jackson an overdose?
Why didn’t Dr Conrad Murray immediately call 911? Exactly how long did they wait before having a security guard call 911 and then never mention Michael Jackson by name?
Did Jackson have a $100 million life insurance policy? Exactly who financially benefits from Michael’s death?
For the circle of handlers who surrounded Jackson during his final years, their golden goose could not be allowed to run dry and therefore, bankruptcy was not an option.
During the last weeks and months of his life, Jackson made desperate attempts to prepare for the concert series scheduled for next month. These concerts would have earned millions for the singer and his entourage, but he could never have completed, not mentally and not physically.
It was clear that he was in no condition to do a single concert or fifty concerts . He could no longer sing. On some days he could barely talk.
His medical team even believed he was anorexic. One known consequence of anorexia is cardiac arrest.
Jackson could no longer dance. Disaster was emerging in London and in the opinion of his closest confidantes, he was feeling suicidal.
There may be people who might be blamed for unintentionally facilitating his death, but did anyone want this to happen?
Jackson had a huge comeback planned, with 50 sold-out concerts and massive debt. If he was physically and mentally unprepared to take the stage, he and/or others might have been desperate enough to see death as the only viable option.
Michael Jackson was tragically a deeply troubled and lonely man.
If his post-death financial affairs are competently handled, there’s every chance that sales of albums, story/book/movie rights and such over the next few months will be big enough to wipe out his debts and leave his heirs an unencumbered estate.
Michael Jackson probably died from a combination of too many prescription drugs, being grossly underweight (5′10″ and 110 lbs), and the rigorous conditioning and training he was going through in preparation for his coming tour.
Did Michael Jackson really and truly live?
While I enjoyed and appreciated the music of The Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson, and I respected the man’s talents – he was an incredible dancer as well as a singer, his life was more about tragedy than it was about triumph.
The paradox of Michael Jackson was that we loved his artistic genius, but we couldn’t process his self-mutilation and his bizarre lifestyle.
Therefore, I stopped watching some time in the 1990s. It’s not only that he became too strange and freaky, and even creepy; it’s that he became tragic. I cannot bear to witness greatness transform into tragedy.
I think that Michael Jackson’s entire life, especially his wackiness and weirdness, were directed in rebellion towards his father. I heard on the news that MJ had a will and that he left his father nothing, while dividing his fortune among his children and his mother.
First, from published reports over the years, the father, Joe Jackson, abused his children and often forced The Jackson 5 to perform, which began when Michael was the tender age of 6. Joe Jackson was driven and he ruled by threat and fear.
In his biography Moonwalk, Jackson wrote of childhood abuse at the hands of his father and multiple plastic surgeries, subjects he returned to in a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey that was one of the most watched nonsports TV programs in American history.
Because of parental greed for money and success, Michael never had a real childhood. His early experiences molded and warped his personality and decisions he made for the rest of his life.
To understand all that Jackson had and lost requires wiping away decades of plastic surgeries that deformed him, erratic behavior that made his name synonymous with the warping powers of fame, and a 2005 trial for sexually abusing a child that, even though he was spared of any finding of wrongdoing, made him an outcast to all but the most brainwashed of fans.
His life becomes yet another example of money doesn’t buy you love or give your life meaning. Worldly success and financial good fortune do not necessarily yield personal happiness.
Maybe he thought money could buy him happiness and peace of mind. Had he realized otherwise, he might have lived a healthier, longer, and more fulfilling life.
Despite his life’s tragedies, Michael Jackson will be remembered as one of the most talented entertainers of the 20th century. At 22, Jackson became not only one of the most admired pop musicians in the world but one of the globe’s most famous people.
His fame only increased with the 1982 release of Thriller, which was to become the best-selling album of all time (until it was surpassed in the late ’90s by the Eagles’ Greatest Hits, 1971-1975).
The years after Thriller, however, were marked by a slow descent into what was at first dismissible as eccentricity.
Looking back, I think his decline began after his hair and scalp got burned (2nd degree burns) from filming that Pepsi commercial in the early to mid 1980s. It was during that time that Michael began his plastic surgeries and started taking and becoming addicted to pain medication.
Michael Jackson made the wrong kinds of changes. He tried to derive satisfaction by crafting a particular public image and soaking up the adulation of his fans.
Jackson was accused over the years and had a notorious court case about being accused to sexually abusing children but was found innocent. While I don’t think MJ was guilty of pedophilia, he obviously made inappropriate decisions regarding children.
Jackson clearly needed strong guidance in and his personal life. Unfortunately, he all too seldom got it.
There’s really not much to learn from the tragic aspects of Jackson’s life, other than what all sensible people already know: children desperately need protection from those who would exploit them, both inside and outside the family.
You would think the people who really loved him would’ve helped him get off the drugs rather than stand by and watch him decay. One of the reasons Michael Jackson is dead at the age of 50, is because nobody had this conversation with Michael Jackson when he was 30 or 40.
Michael Jackson did not receive that protection and the results were terribly sad and tragic. Michael Jackson was living a completely unmanaged life and of all these people involved with him either personally or professionally, not one took a firm hand to tell him so.
Apparently, everyone just chose to keep quiet while the gravy train paid off. Maybe they just loved his money more.
We watched Michael Jackson’s life from cute kid to grotesque adult with a freakish appearance and disturbing behavior yet no one along the way intervened to save Michael Jackson from himself.
Quote of the Day:
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
–Samuel Johnson
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