Michael Jackson Probably O.D.'d -- Just Like Thousands of Americans Who Fall Victim to Our Overdose Epidemic

If in fact opiate narcotic Demerol was injected into Michael Jackson, a short while before he went into cardiac arrest, then antidote Narcan could have saved his life. There is no indication that Jackson's doctor even considered injecting Narcan into him to counteract Demerol.
His doctor did not even perform CPR correctly.

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I am stupefied by the reaction to Jackson's death. Why is anyone really surprised? He had been dying in instalments for a decade anyway.

He was one of the freakiest public figures; I can't bring myself to say 'star' because he certainly wasn't that. Using the words of some industry mogul in the '20s regarding Fred Astaire, Jackson "couldn't sing, couldn't act, could dance a little". And his public behaviour!! Well!! What a nutter!!

Why is someone like Jackson lionised anyway? What did he achieve for anyone else? For mankind? Isn't it about time we all got back to lauding people who actually do something of value? Who use curiosity and intelligence to produce something profound and of use to the rest of us on our soon-to-be-benighted planet? Pop stars (there's that word)!! What have we sunk to!! What a pitiful indictment that we should fall about screaming whenever one of these pipsqueaks shows his or her face in public.

Jackson was in debt up to his eyeballs while living the high life and swanning around when he wasn't playing the recluse. Apparently he ate pills for brekkie, lunch and dinner. 50 isn't a bad innings for such a fellow, despite his recent health and fitness check - well, so we are led to believe by the powers that be.

There will be such a spate of previously unreleased albums and re-packaging of Jackson that his estate should be able to pay out all his debts.

Then hopefully, his memory will fade to the lustreless shine that it was before he tried, unsuccessfully, to re-invent himself.

Who's next - Madonna???

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I doubt that more practical and enlightened drug policies would have done much for Jackson, except maybe prolong the inevitable until one of his other demons got to him. I didn't expect him to last as long as he did.

But I agree with the broader message of the article. Like a lot of things in this country, drug policy is driven largely by politics, Puritan morality, fanaticism, and the nanny-state mentality rather than any sense of reality or respect for the individual.

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they've known for years how abused their drugs. They were fined and laughed it off.

Placing strict controls over abuse is easy, its just not profitable.

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The media circus that has erupted over Michael Jackson's death can only be described as bizarre and disturbing. When Jackson's death was announced I groaned, not because I'm a fan but because I realized we all would have to put up with a day or two of Nothing-But-Michael in all the media. Instead of that minor flood we have been hit with a tsunami the likes of which we haven't seen since Paris Hilton was carted off to jail for some minor traffic infraction.

I suspect that, as usual, there's a cynical, commercial explanation for this madness. I can almost hear the network ad salesmen working the phone lines as they excitedly lie to their corporate clients about how many pairs of eyes can be guaranteed by this latest exercise in media overkill. The worse the economy, the hungrier the ad salesmen, the bigger the lies, the more ridiculous the coverage . . . and so on. It has gotten so bad that local anchors can barely squeeze in a line or two of local news before the Michaelizing begins. Any day now we can expect calls for statues of Jackson to be erected in every town and village (no doubt with discreet corporate logos displayed on the stonework).

Nothing against Michael Jackson, but all this is so ridiculous and disgusting. And what happens if Cher or Madonna passes away next month? We might as well crawl into a fallout shelter for the rest of 2009.

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It may be time to create a federal database for the prescriptions of the most federally regulated pain killers by patient to prevent pill shopping or excessive prescribing. Doctors or any pharmaist would be required to check this database to make sure the patient is not put into danger prior to prescribing or processing the prescription.
As to the Good Samaritan/911 law suggested, as of July 1st, the State of NJ will have such a law as to underaged alcohol use, where the person in trouble and those that call 9/11 cannot be proscuted for underaged drinking charges.

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Come on those 'Investors' in this 50 show World tour undoubtedly had a life insurance policy out on MJ.Why else have a 24/7 "MD" at his beckon call. Interesting this Investors Doc would be willing to inject MJ with Demerol- seems counterprodcutive to assuring he drug adiction doesn't become a problem. Would have made more sense to have require MJ Dry out before investing in this multimillion dollar tour first. Then to hear this Doc may have done the CPR incorrectly? Where did these Investors find this Doc, on an Indictment for Malpractice?
Consider how many times MJ's "health' was an issue whenever he didn't want to do something (like show up for trial). His antics alone could have cost these investors millions in lost revenue. Worst yet if he decided he couldn't finish the tour at all. Perhaps it became obvious that MJ couldn't pull of a 50 show schedule, let alone One show- either physically or psychologically. God knows what a whiny wimpy self aborbed spoiled Brat he had become as an adult.
Investing in a MJ World Tour is even more risky than anything Wall Street could cook up.
so the Question begs to be asked- Why invest your money is in a mental basket case with a self destructive Drug addiction? We know that these 'investment' gamblers always hedge their bets- not just making great dividends when stocks go Up, but also making money when 'stocks' go down. follow the money and see who hooked him up with this Junkies Dream Doc, and who's still making bank from their investment from his cancelled tour.
This Doc did not only NOT assure his health, He helped endanger it and then was ill equipped to save it when the inevitable occurred. WHY?

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As such I could not read it past the second sentence.

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If only we had more windmills up and running right now. All the hot air that's blowing about over Michael Jackson's death could certainly power the city of Los Angeles for the next 6 months.

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For once I confess to not having read this article before commenting. I am throughly sickened by the spectacle of the world's concern over the death of this maladjusted freak who never really knew who or what he was.
Never have I seen such ridiculous excess as represented by the headlines which screamed "The World Mourns MJ's Death".

That the world concerns itself with this sequined/spangled 50 year old juvenile, goes a long way to explaining how we got to the point where we elected, not once but twice, a thoroughly "misunderestimated" idiot as president.

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Do we need this national catharsis over the death of this crotch-grabbing little boy, who was to talent, what George Bush was to intelligent expression?
Retire the topic !

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What all that allows in me is NOT being such a fucking chicken shit coward to say that I was saddened by Jackson's death.
Why?
Because his REAL LIFE was robbed from him by a prick father, etc.
How do I know about a prick father??
Because I had one, that's why!

Some of you stupid fucking idiots here who have STATED AS FACT that Jackson molested kids, etc need to be prosecuted for the sexual abuse of a child as, THE ONLY WAY YOU PERVS COULD KNOW THIS FOR A FQACT IS BY BEING THERE.
And, since you WERE THERE, you are all fucking guilty as hell.
I sure as shit would not want any of YOU on my jury.
YOU are the same ones who are being proven wrong by DNA and have sent so many innocent people to prison.

That is a subject which has been written about here in alternet many many times.
I guess you are all just fucking liars since you get on that soap box or "innocent until~~~~etc" butt toss it away when it's convenient.

Jackson may well have done something illegal, etc however, I WAS NOT THERE AND JAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF MY OWN.
Therefore, I cannot state anything with certainty.
I am most surprised at purple girl.
I had though she was one of the ablest thinkers here yet, there she is with the FLAT OUT ACCUSATIONS.

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How does one know that ONE PER WEEK will not suffice?

Think!!

One per day versus one per week

Mfg wil lose 75% of Revenue!!!!!!!!!!

Pal had mom on ten per day.

Took her off one per week without her knowledge. Three weeks and she was bragging as how much better she felt.

Dr said "Take her off all of them"

Energetic-Happy--Never felt better in years

Pharmaceutical, before recent oil price hikes,was for decades the industry which made the most profit on revenue.

$$$$$$$$$ YES $$$$$$

I cannot recall number of times doctor put wife on pill and the pharmacist said you cannot take it.

FACT--about 25 years ago I was placed on Blood Pressure and Cholesterol ONE PER DAY.

I never took one per day. I TOOK ONE PER WEEK and at times one per month.

Always good at checkups each four months.

GO ONE PER WEEK AND CHECK
cswinney2@triad.rr.com

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Rich and powerful people do not need to use prescription drugs to get high. They use the best which is Cocaine and Opium. Rarely is there an overdose and most live to a ripe old age. It is true that the poor abuse prescribed medications, but reports of an overdose of prescription drugs among the rich does not make sense. Suicide or murder in the Marylin Monroe case was the cause, but not prescription drug abuse.

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Oh gawd, the minute I heard the news of Michael Jackson's death the M$M started the drug O.D. speculation. And being who he is, or was, I also knew the M$M would play Jackson's death as a cautionary "smart kids don't do drugs" story.

Utter nonsense.

More than likely Jackson died of some form of congestive heart failure. CHF is a pernicious condition which can disguise itself as many other more easily treatable conditions. By late August we well be reading of seemingly healthy young men dropping dead at pre-season football workouts and practices. Autopsies will concludes that these otherwise healthy young men died of undiagnosed forms of CHF.

If anyone really wants to be outraged over America's non-system of delivering health care be outraged by this: June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.’s chief executive officer, got a liver transplant quickly because of a U.S. system that favors patients with the means to rush to geographic areas where there is less competition for organs.

Memphis, where Jobs got the transplant, is one of several U.S. meccas for liver patients who can afford to travel, doctors said. Flight records show Jobs’s personal jet flew at least six times this year from California, with one of the longest transplant lists in the U.S., to Memphis, where the wait is shorter. www.bloomberg.com

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if somebody wants to die, that's their business

if somebody has the funds to acquire massive amounts of pharmaceuticals... NO POWER ON EARTH is going to convince them that if they want it, they're gonna go with the 'safer route'.

if somebody is hell-bent on self-destruction

THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS.

stay the hell out of people's lives & their right to choose their own path for self-destruction.

next thing you know, you'll be saying we should all stand around at government-regulated food dispensers because we can't be trusted with our caloric intakes.

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pedophile end of story,, anything else does not matter,, BET should be ashamed of themselves for that farce last night, oh thats right,, any black dude (even self hating ones) is completely cool,, right oj?

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It's been intriguing. We live in a culture with a "war on drugs." We get all bent out of shape when we find our kids smoked a joint--even when we may have done the same when we were their age.

We even have "religious" leaders telling us that we don't need such things as mind-altering drugs.

Then we turn on the idiot box to watch the news, or our favorite sitcom or whatever and every 8 minutes there's another 7 minutes of ads.

Do you watch 'em? Half are for some prescription drug, something that'll make you feel young again, will make your sex life improve, or solve any number of problems.

So, I see. We can't take a drug that someone will sell me on the corner, but I can spend $8 a day on some drug my doctor can prescribe for me, and I'll live forever, huh?

(You've noted too that half or more of the prime time ads are for contraindications: "May cause you to die, tolerate your mother in law, or lose your sexual inhibitions while in a dark theatre....")

Do we have problems with the drugs or not? (I also talked with a phsycian about them. He said, "Well, if I don't prescribe them to the patient, someone else will."

Is it really any surprise that MJ or anyone else with money takes enough feel-good concoctions to make an Emergency Room jealous?

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The doctor is being vilified for trying to save the life of a man so frail from drug use that he feared he would fracture his breastbone and/or ribcage if he applied the appropriate amount of pressure. The real issue for the doctor is why he let his patient degrade to this physical state.

When someone is addicted to drugs, alcohol or gambling there are three end results that you ultimately arrive at while "in action"...prison, insanity or death. In the case of this addict he died while leading an isolated existence beyond reasonable bounds of sanity having avoided prison because he could leverage considerable financial resources and legal muscle to hold off the consequences to his actions. He was the poster child of addiction...

So we have in this life of an addicted man a playing out of the story "The Emperors New Clothes" with his legion of Armani clad maggots propping him up readying to launch him into a world he no longer recognizes. It wasn't meant to be as his body gave out and prevented him from completing the tale...one where he stands in front of masses of adoring people who, in this economy, can ill afford to pay the price of admission to see a performance he can no longer deliver.

In the end addiction has but one demand, like water at gravity's behest, it leads its host to the lowest point.

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Well, whatever he died of (& OD'd looks like it from here), it should come as no great surprise to anyone.

What IS surprising (tho prob'ly shouldn't be with the awful family history & how he was treated by them when alive), is the new chatter-rumor that his family is arguing over where to bury him.

May I make a semi-gentle suggestion? Why not take him to a good taxidermist, dress him appropriately in one of his costumes (changing it now'n then) & he could STILL go on a continuous extended World Tour forever (his music in the bkgd., on a continuous loop, blasting out from subtle speakers) ...
... "The Forever Tour."

Just a thought ...

m. swof.

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OK, so a beloved pop art figure is dead. Far too young, to be sure.
One thing not mentioned is the question of heart problems in Jackson's family. These traits do tend to run in families.
Remember Jim Fix, the super-fit runner? He died of a heart attack despite his fitness, and at age fifty two, as did his father.
If, on the other hand, Jackson was on downers because of depression, how is it that he died with a doctor at his side? Does that sound fishy or what?
Jackson will be missed because of his great songs and videos, just as Bing Crosby, Luchiano Pavaroti, Nat Cole, and many others are. The cause of their deaths is hardly revelant; their MORTALITY is.

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...So, 5 days later, the media finally spills that Michael Jackson, at 5'10" tall, weighed 125 pounds at the time of his death, and was suffering from anorexia. So, he could indeed have died from heart failure, after all!

Heart failure brought on by anorexia killed Karen Carpenter; the same condition caused the media circle-jerk surrounding Terry Schiavo, who by all accounts was once a shy woman who would have been mortified over the all the hoopla.

Whichever way it happened, ya'll, this poor soul is dead; and there's no point in either canonizing or vilifying him now.

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So many comments on this article are vomit from a keyboard. Calling MJ a freak requires a look at the freak in your own mirror. Best to find out soon that we each reflect one another. And we don't have all day. Time is the fire that consumes us.

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By dying, Michael Jackson did the best thing he possibly could have done for his career. It did wonders for Elvis's career.

That pathetic bag of bones, reject from Planet of the Apes could not have pulled off a come back tour, give me a break. It would have probably been painful to watch the out-of-shape old geezer try to dance and all that plastic surgruy left him without a nose so he probably could not sing anymore either.

Now that he is dead, they need to re-release Thriller. Death will ensure that Michael Jackson gets back on top of the charts, makes a boatload of money and erases all that debt. Death is the single best career move ever! I wonder if they planned it that way or just got lucky.

Luv,
Granny

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To imply that he has anything in common with the real world is unfair to the rest of the real world. Jackson slowly abused himself in countless ways. His drug habits should not be compared to those who need medication to get through the day. He was high profile and loved every minute of it. Face it, he could buy anything and anybody he chose. He chose to kill himself in bits and pieces in the public eye. Part of his act. The drugs are a part of it but mostly it's Jackson's personality, the insatiable need for attention that cost him his life. His personal disasters were as much a part of his act as the music. He had a long life for a guy who did so much to shorten it. Thanks, ANNA

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Why the shock to find MsM making a circus out of Michael Jackson's life? They were just practicing those first 20 years of hounding him?

Anyway, sounds to me the vehemence against MJ here comes from what I can only sympathize with, the loss of your working thumbs. So helpless were you, there before the squawking cable news screen, to turn away. Or turn off the damn box.

You know, I saw that media shitstorm coming too, and I walked away. Know thyselves, y'all! You're infecting the collective unconscious with your bile.

I adored him as a kid in the 80s. Still consider his unique talents are pretty undeniable--but then, I was open to it as a lover of all music. As I got older, his 90s strangeness put me off somewhat, But hey, I thought, it happened to Elvis too. At least he raised millions for the starving in Africa. When MJ married Lisa Marie, he finally yet beyond me. Through all the accusations though, I thought he made too easy a target to doubt and ridicule. I really think such a terrible childhood warped him. I can't defend any inappropriateness, but I wasn't on that jury, didn't hear the evidence and so can't damn him as a deviant. But then, I'm not looking for a reason to. Like y'all, I distrust sensationalism. Which in my book, is all the more reason to avoid it.

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I know that African Americans have had a long history of racism in this country, but I do not understand there ability to forgive some one just because they are of the same race. They voted for Obama in droves even though, if you actually listened to his speeches or rather policy sound bites, he was saying the same thing as McSame.

Michael Jackson and the entire Jackson family were mediocre marketed talents to begin with, just as Elvis was. I know I’m going to get a lot of flack for that.

I don’t know if it’s still true but African American forgiveness of people like Michael Jackson and Obama baffle me. You would think that African Americans would be more critical. I don’t know perhaps if I was in their shoes I might feel the same way.

A couple of months ago I was in a restaurant that was having a Karaoke night and Michel Jacksons Beat It came on and a couple of black guys said to me, “You have to admit that Michael Jackson is bad.” I said are you kidding, Michael Jackson isn’t even worthy of holding Jimmi Hendrix’s guitar.

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If you want to ride the white horse go right ahead. It should be completely legal for an individual to numb themselves to pain. However, it does not mean that you have been victimized.

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About opium, Jean Cocteau, in his evocative memoir detailing his own addiction, suggests chemists modify its toxicity while salvaging the euphoria.

This would never happen in the moralizing US, of course.

Wasn't there even an FDA initiative to withhold morphine drip from dying patients because of some kind of quasi-legality?

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There are hundreds of us who use narcotic medications for chronic pain without abusing them, but every time someone has a problem with prescription drugs, no contrast is drawn to separate those, who would be in writhing pain on a daily basis without opioid medications, from those who get multiple prescriptions because they can afford them.

Each time this happens, we receive another public slap in the face.

People with chronic, writhing, intractable pain should never be considered part of this problem and should not suffer interference from others who have no first hand experience.

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of sounding like someone I am not fond of:

So?

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Committing murder is easy for monsters that have been trained in the art. The KGB used undetectable poisons to get rid of its worst enemies. It would not shock me if those poisons were still being used. It is frightning to know that any person can be poisoned and the murderer would go free. Let us hope that an undetectable poison was not used on Michael Jackson.

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It's interesting that everytime a "celebrity" dies, even if opiates were only one of many reasons listed as the cause of death, they are what make the headlines. Sure, people do die from overdoses of opiate drugs, but as the article mentions, there is an antidote, Narcan. What about other drugs? How many people die annually from the side effects of anti-depressants, non-steroidal antiinflamitory drugs, sleep aids, long term effects of blood pressure medications, cholesterol drugs, weight reduction drugs, erectile dysfunction drugs, restless leg syndrome drugs, anti-anxiety drugs, etc., the list is as endless as the dangerous side effects. How many people die annually from alcohol poisoning, or cancer/emphasema/COPD and other smoking related illnesses? There are many more deaths directly attributable to the above list than opiates, yet it is the opiates that have the bad reputation. Generally, physicians will prescribe just about everything available to them for pain except opiates, even though that alternative may be more dangerous and expensive than the opiate alternative. IMO, this is directly due to the fact that opite drugs have been needlessly demonized by the drug warrior culture because of their mood altering effects. After all, isn't it a sin to feel good, even while being treated for devastating pain? It would seem so considering the fact that marijuana has many similar qualities concerning pain relief, has no risk of overdose, and is not physically dependence producing, but does produce a "high" and is therefore federally banned.

According to the American Pain Foundation, opiates are among the safest and most well understood drugs currently on the market for the management of moderate to severe pain, and with the exception of the physical dependence they produce in long term use (as is the case with almost any central nervous system depressant, including the very legal drug alcohol), have few dangerous long term side effects. Most opiate overdoses reported are not only caused by the opiate, but by an additional substance that was taken with the opiate drug, such as alcohol or benzodiazapine type drugs, that enhance CNS and thus respiratory depression. Again, the risk of overdose can be greatly reduced by simply making the antidote naloxone readily availabile. Again, the problem lies in the drug warrior mentality, as the author states, in that many believe providinfg naloxone is the same as encouraging drug use.

The bottom line would seem to indicate that the war on drugs and the accompanying menatlity are more of a problem than the drugs themselves. We don't have religious zealots out screaming that erectile dysfunction drugs, anti-depressants, arthritis drugs, or any of those other drugs are "bad", even though they kill far more people every year. What's wrong with this picture?

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Last night I heard on Cunningham's show that Jesse Jackson's son
asked the Congress/ or whatever to have a moment of
silence due to the death of M Jackson. Which they complied! Did not have a moment
of silence for Reagan did we? Did I hear wrong? Let me know.

What happened to our morals?

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No 10-year old boyfriends since 2003... must have been tough on the poor guy.

But hey, that boy sure could sing and dance, couldn't he?*


*anti-racist sarcasm directed at the MSM

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Very few of us have servile, lackey doctors injecting us or dispensing to us pill of our choice, in quantities of our choice. Pharamacists help this drug racket along; failing to report extraordinary volumes of drugs delivered to celebrities or to celebrity doctors. Michael Jackson knew this system as well as Heath Ledger or Elvis Presley. He liked it. He was Micheal Jackson and everyone bowed down to his destructive wishes. He got away with child sexual abuse with the aid of his handlers, lawyers and PR Whores. His medical whore shot him up. Now Jackson's dead, and his repetitious bad imitation of 70's soul hopefully died with him. Of course Jesse Jackson and Sharpton aren't warning black youth that Doper Mike is not a role model but a bleached out corpse years before he officially died. And why is NBC endlessly running footage of this freak's life? GE or Universal planning the movie (with Depp?) of the zombie's life?

Too bad the statute of limitations on child abuse and assault has run on Daddy Joseph Jackson. He created these freaks and is responsible in part for the damage these wacko kids caused to other kids and to the stupid, believing public. Daddy Joe needs a brick sailing a 50 mph crashing right into his evil face. So he knows what it's like. Maybe he was a slave taskmaster in a previous life.

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More than likely Jackson died of some form of congestive heart failure. CHF is a pernicious condition which can disguise itself as many other more easily treatable conditions. By late August we well be reading of seemingly healthy young men dropping dead at pre-season football workouts and practices. Autopsies will concludes that these otherwise healthy young men died of undiagnosed forms of CHF

استضافه,استضافه مجانيه,تطوير مواقع

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who cares. he's dead. one less unregistered sex offender.

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I firmly believe that our drug war needs a working class ass kicking and a traitors justice. When it is over we will need real rehab for drug addicts and and the drug war as well. That being said, why is it so hard to accept a heart attack as the cause of death for Micheal Jackson?

A little background. I'm 53, less than 10 pounds over my prime dating weight, physically active, don't smoke, and do legal / illegal drugs occasionally. I had a heart attack less than 3 months ago. The cause- too much caffeine and burning the candle at both ends.

MJ (the king of pop) at 50 simply pushed his body past the limit preparing to get in shape for his upcoming tour. The fact that he had a doctor on scene to monitor his training, professionals handling his training and he was close to medical facilities shows he took every precaution he could have.

Sometimes, however, the best laid plans of mice and men are laid to waste, by the conquerer worm.

We don't need to drag Micheal Jackson's name through the mud, one more time for tabloid rating. Let the man rest in peace and maybe the rest of us can learn an important lesson from this. Like when we reach 50, we are no longer indestructible and we must start living by a different set of rules.

Jay Lindberg

Author of Drug War Economics: the Machine behind the Madness. IF you would like a copy of the book, I will sent you a PDF copy of it, Free.

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