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Coroner Rules Michael Jackson’s Death Homicide
It was all so very nice when, after word came that Michael Jackson passed, the zeitgeist chose to remember the sweeter times. The less controversial, more moonwalking times.
If only it could have ended there.
The sordidness around Jackson’s death kicked up 1,000 notches when the LA coroner ruled the performer’s death a homicide yesterday.
Tests showed Jackson was administered propofol, a powerful anesthetic, which mixed lethally with two sedatives Jackson already had in his system.
Now that homicide has been called as the cause, will there be an arrest to follow, and who?
In terms of an impending arrest, the answer is: not necessarily. Interestingly, a ruling of homicide means Jackson died by another person’s hand but does not explicitly mean a crime was committed.
However; the man of interest is Dr. Conrad Murray, a Las Vegas cardiologist who became Jackson’s personal physician weeks before his death and is the subject of a manslaughter investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.
Murray originally told police he acquiesced to Jackson’s repeated demands for the propofol, which Jackson referred to as “milk”, to combat insomnia. This despite the fact the doctor knew of the cocktail of benzodiazepines already drifting in Jackson’s bloodstream.
One can only hope the continually unfolding details of the Jackson case will not affect the long term health and well being of Jackson’s children, but with new surprises daily all bets are off.
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Tom Degan commented on Aug 25 09 at 12:17 pmWe have to give the man his due: Michael Jackson was – beyond a shadow of a doubt – a great artist whose recorded legacy will endure for decades, maybe even a century or more. But an examination of his life is riddled with questions of all that might have been; all that should have been. It is more than likely that this was a severely mentally ill human being who never sought the treatment he so desperately needed; surrounded by fawning sycophants who enabled his sickness by constantly reassuring him that he could do no wrong. As John Lennon once said in the same context about Elvis Presley, another victim of the excesses of fame: “It’s always the courtiers that kill the king”.
The sad, inescapable truth is that for reasons we will probably never be able to fully understand, his talent and his career were ultimately wasted. Like Charlie Parker, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and Lenny Bruce before him, his brilliance as an artist would be overshadowed by severe, psychological torment and an unexplainable desire for self-destruction. Therein lies the real, unspeakable tragedy of Michael Jackson.
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