# Michael Jackson Dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988 "2009-06-25T21:15:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/81 "2009-06-25T22:43:36Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Am I the only one thinking (if this turns out to be true) that now I can finally buy _Thriller_, since my money won’t actually be going into his pocket? For the last decade at least , no money from thriller was going into his pocket, he is or was in hock up to his eyeballs. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/82 "2009-06-25T22:43:55Z")
I wasn’t a fan of his music (though I recognized his obvious talent), and I’m convinced he was molesting those kids, but I’m still surprised to find that I feel sad. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/83 "2009-06-25T22:44:04Z")
> [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](#): > > Yeah, but he dies and Keith Richards lives? For comparative body abuse… keith richards must have the most incredible genetics known to humans. or on second thought perhaps he is the grim reaper himself. cnn was just showing the billie jean video. poor farah, knocked off the front page. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/84 "2009-06-25T22:44:11Z")
Holy Zeus. The more callous part of me is thinking that it’s actually good that this happened today. It will overshadow Farrah Fawcett’s death among the media vultures, and that will permit her family more peace than they would have gotten otherwise. ETA: On the other hand he had kids who will get tons of shit. No, there’s no upside to this at all. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/85 "2009-06-25T22:44:22Z")
> [@CyclopticXander](#): > > And now every source has confirmed. Mark Sanford sure is counting his blessings. Let us hope for less of a circus than we got with Anna Nicole. Are you insane? This will make Anna Nicole’s death coverage seem like a calming breeze, if I had to guess. On the “comes in threes” thing: true, Ed McMahon and David Carradine died recently, but were either of them as flat-out crazy as Farrah or MJ? If you ask me, Joaquin Phoenix had better start doing Pilates or something. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/86 "2009-06-25T22:44:47Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > I’m wondering if he deliberately OD’d on drugs. I know he had some massive European tour in the works; maybe the pressure got to be too much for him. We’ll probably never know. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/87 "2009-06-25T22:45:00Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Well, some parts of his body were 50, other parts were in their 40s, other parts were in their 30s. It’d be interesting to see in what order he decomposes. And some of his body parts were in…whoa, let’s not go there. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/88 "2009-06-25T22:45:50Z")
we’re all in shock here at work. It sucks that Farrah’s going to be eclipsed by wacko-jacko. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/89 "2009-06-25T22:46:25Z")
> [@fizzestothetop](#): > > I thought Farrah completed the Bea Arthur, Ed McMahan triology. Were there two other dead celebrities that I missed? Well, there was David Carradine…just need one more. Edit: aaaand beaten to it in the time it took me to pee before I posted. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/90 "2009-06-25T22:46:38Z")
Michael Jackson: The Little Black Boy Who Grew Up To Be A White Man ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/91 "2009-06-25T22:48:19Z")
He really was quite talented, but so much of that was overshadowed by the sheer freak show of his life. These last couple of decades, he was seen as a weird (and slightly creepy) combination of naive and unbalanced. It’s too bad that someone so gifted didn’t have more than a fleeting familiarity with normalcy. I’m sure those final moments were scary ones, but it sounded like a lot of his life was fairly unhappy. A shame. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/92 "2009-06-25T22:49:50Z")
White woman, you mean. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/93 "2009-06-25T22:50:24Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Any speculation that it was a suicide? It could have been. “Cardiac arrest” is kind of a general term for your heart stopping (and that could happen from a lot of different things, including something like an intentional drug overdose). But then again, he was old enough that it could very well have been something as mundane as a massive heart attack. I feel sad about this simply because he had so much potential, was such a gifted performer, and it all was terribly derailed by his mental problems. It is too bad that this means he never did get his demons sorted out and get his life back on track. ---
**Author:** ![Myrrajh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Myrrajh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrrajh)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/94 "2009-06-25T22:50:54Z")
Well, I just hope he can finally have some peace now. Thanks for the great music, MJ. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/95 "2009-06-25T22:53:23Z")
This is just like whenm Elvis died, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/96 "2009-06-25T22:55:17Z")
My newest wack theory is that those promoters who had him on the hook for 50 shows, had him submit to a physical, etc., had insurance, big insurance, against this contingency…there were rumblings a week ago about him trying to backslide on some of the dates, etc. Hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/97 "2009-06-25T22:55:39Z")
I still don’t know whether or not this surprises me. eh, I’ll just go along with what \*\*Myrrajh \*\*said. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/98 "2009-06-25T22:56:49Z")
Holy Freaking Crap! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/99 "2009-06-25T22:57:04Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Michael Jackson: The Little Black Boy Who Grew Up To Be A White Man > [@Rilchiam](#): > > White woman, you mean. White something-or-other. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/100 "2009-06-25T22:57:59Z")
BBC’s saying MJ’s died: > **[BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Singer Michael Jackson dies at 50](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8119993.stm)** > > Music legend Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50, after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Beverly Hills. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988.md?page=6)