Its now been a week since his death do you still feel; very sad/devestated, sad, unaffected or glad/happy (have heared a few people say this)
how are your family members or close friends still feel?

do you think more people liked, loved him then hated or disliked him?

Do you think the fact he has sold lots of albums since his death, had 500million hits to a site about buying tickets to his funeral and hundreds are expected to be at his funeral proves more people liked him then disliked him?

How do I feel about it? I think Rhett Butler summed it up perfectly: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a d**n".

> How do I feel about it? I think Rhett Butler summed it up perfectly: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a d**n".

Totally with you JG.     There's far more important issues going on in the world without the media hype given to a disturbed individual.  One wonders when Gary Glitter dies, if he will get the same coverage?

And another who couldn't give two hoots ......far more important things in the world to agonise over.

I remain entirely unaffected other than to feel sympathy for his friends and family.  An unexpected death must be very difficult and for some of them, who prefer to mourn in private, it must be doubly hard.

> Do you think the fact he has sold lots of albums since his death, had 500million hits to a site about buying tickets to his funeral and hundreds are expected to be at his funeral proves more people liked him then disliked him?

In some respects rather ghoulish but it may well have reminded people how much they liked him.  You can't doubt the talent but it's a shame a man couldn't be truly happy with who he was.

I feel a lot more sympathy for the 2 dogs who died in the police van, or the 6 that died in a flat fire in London this morning.

Call me heartless but the world carries on and there are far more tragic things happening. Had he not been famous he was just  a 50 year old man that died from heart problems

I'm like everyone else, there's other things in life and in the world more important, dogs being left in cars, children dying in fires, my hubby being made redundant after 25 years!

I don't understand people buying tickets to a funeral at all and I don't think it proves that more people liked him than disliked him, maybe it proves that a lot of people have an obsession with him or want to be part of something that might go down in history. I really don't understand folk who idolise celebs in that way.

Yup............Rhetts quote sums it up for me too.

I agree with other posters , yes its sad for family and friends and maybe to alot of fans but life does go on
and there are much more important things in this world to worry about .

Me too!
Aileen

I do not really think about MJs death, only when other people bring it up.  Couldnt care less, as I didnt like him. 

More things on my plate than the death of someone I didnt know, didnt like, etc. 

I could care less- One less Pedophile in the world!

Funny how you hear nothing on farraw?

They make to big of a thing outta it- come on 25 dollars or something for fans to go to his funeral- give me a break....

He was an over done plastic who wanted to be white and not accept who he was- glad my kids never looked up to him- he looked just fine b4 his accident when he made Thriller- after the accident funny how he started turning white- he actually started to look more like a skeleton with all his face jobs....

Well i don't feel sad, Not going over his personal life, but musically he was very talented and i loved his music, especially loved all his older stuff...

I don't think any of us will ever know what went on in his private life - we only have what the tv/papers tell us. All we know is that he was found not guilty on all charges. The Arvizo family are known crooks and had a history of trying to extort celebrities.
I'm not sure what farraw is so I can't comment.

I wasn't a fan of his music but I can appreciate that he was a very talented entertainer.

Arched I think they mean Farrah Fawcett, whose death should of being higher on the news pages than MJ's I feel.  She fought a hard time and still tried to help people even when she was ill.

I have to admit I had had enough of hearing of MJ's death within half an hour of it being on TV.

I wish it would all go quiet now and let him and his family have the peace they so need righ tnow.

Farrah Fawcett.  Typo I think

Ditto JG

Sorry - makes sense now.

Well I suppose, as beautiful as she was and as sad as it was, her death wasn't unexpected where as his was. Her career doesn't even begin to compare to his - I bet a look at her work biography will show very little, one series I think of Charlies Angels, a few films and a few parts in other series. She really was known for just Charlies Angels and her hair. It wasn't that many years ago that she was getting awful media coverage because of her own plastic surgery which was pretty awful and the rumours of drug use.
Yes, it is sad that she died of such a rare and awful cancer but on the 'celeb' scale she was never going to be able to compete.

But MJ has done nothing for the last 15 years so I don't really see any difference. If you don't like music but love films maybe FF's death is more significant than MJ's, everyone has different tatses and interests.

Musically maybe he hasn't - but he has rarely been out of the news. He was known throughout the world - even in really far flung places.
Don't misunderstand me, I think the coverage of his death is well over the top but his life and story will be of interest to people (and earn lots of them a fortune) for years and years to come. Farrah Fawcett was of course loved by many, but when it comes her fame there is a huge difference.
It was said they wanted a private funeral for her, maybe they are grateful that there wasn't a huge media scrum. Sadly the Jackson family and their 'advisors' are using his funeral to make more money - all very tacky and nasty.

I though MJ was a musician so he hasn't done anything for the last 15 years! You commented on the lack of things that FF had done, hmm there was a lack of work from MJ unless you count all the bad press he's had as acheivements? I think the difference between the two depends on your personal interests like I said. I grew up with MJ's music and FF on Charlies Angels and have more respect for FF any day.

I was standing in a queue at a checkout in a shop today where there was one of those celeb mags with a phot of MJ on the front with an ET tube down his throat, obviously taken when he was being taken into or out of the ambulance. I just don't understand the need for these things. Farah Fawcett at least died without the invasion of privacy by the media!!

I'm agreeing with you !. It's just how things are - like him or hate him he was amazingly famous thoughout the world - that's why the press has gone mad.
'hmm there was a lack of work from MJ unless you count all the bad press he's had as acheivements?'........ Isn't that what I said ?- musically he hasn't done much but he's rarely been out of the news. He was and will be for a long time very big news and a big money spinner.
I also grew up with MJ's music and Farrah on Charlies Angels so I remember how popular she was in the 70's. I've never owned MJ music nor am I likely to but I did try to have Farrah hair !.

I couldn't care less and am still astonished about how people react. But then I never had an "idol" and simply cannot understand the fascination with "celebs". They were all born naked ;).

I couldn't care less and am still astonished about how people react. But then I never had an "idol" and simply cannot understand the fascination with "celebs". They were all born naked ;-).

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Has it only been a week?

To be honest people die all the time, some young some old, some we hear about others we don't.

It was a sad time to hear MJ had died, the same as it was to hear about the police dogs, a dear friend a couple of years back, or the person stabbed in my town last month, the puppy from our litter that never made it though the 2nd night or all those soldiers killed at war.  Each one a sad loss of life BUT after each death we all move on, some quicker then others.  Everybody/thing dies some time after they are born.

I never really liked or disliked MJ, I enjoyed listening to his music as i do alot of other artisits, my partner thought about buying tickets to see him but we wern't THAT intrested.  I can't undertand how so many people cried at the news of his death, but maybe they won't understand why I cried at each of our dogs deaths.

MJ was never convicted of being a pedo, infact some reports quote the father of the boy he apparently abused saying it didn't happen they made it up (but then I don't really listen much to what the media says!)  MJ was never convisted so I don't think people can all him a pedofile.  A strange man indeed still.

I couldn't care less and am still astonished about how people react. But then I never had an "idol" and simply cannot understand the fascination with "celebs". They were all born naked .

That made me laugh lmao

Never convicted pedofile then why would he pay that family off? If he was not guilty then you would stand up to that- god no's he had the money to fight but instead he payed them off, in my books that is as guilty as guilty gets!

1993 - A civil lawsuit is filed claiming Jackson sexually molested 13-year-old Jordan Chandler. Evidence is gathered, but the singer agrees to pay an undisclosed sum to settle the case before it goes to court. Estimates of the figure range anywhere from two million dollars (£1.1 million) to 50 million dollars (£27.8 million).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/michael-jackson/5643915/Michael-Jackson-events-that-led-to-child-abuse-trial.html

I think he is guilty- you don't share a bed with kids that are def not yours and at that age- come on he's an adult- in my eye's that is sick! How many people get accused then they are found not guilty but actual are? Him being famous sounds like he payed the people to just go away... You can do alot of things when money is no object...

With this statement: Michael's former doctor and boss of Jackson's onetime wife, Debbie Rowe -- is the biological father of elder children Prince Michael Jr. and Paris. "He and Debbie signed an agreement saying they would never reveal the truth,

Never tell the truth? http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=105151 In the long run I feel so very sorry for the kids :-(

generally speaking, i feel the same as i did a week before MJ's death

In order to better understand the fascination peeps have with him I just forced myself to watch an interview with him done by some guy calle *Bashir* (???). And now I will have nightmares. Sorry but that guy couldn't have been right in the head. No way!!!

Martin Bashir? He interviewed Princess Diana as well.

Haven't given it a thought.  Still grieving after losing a dog, who gave me far more pleasure.

I think that was his name, I was too busy not to get sick when I watched that interview. MJ gave me the creeps. Pedo or not - he wouldn't have gotten within 100 feet of my son. No way.

Should I feel anything?

He was a pop star who meant nothing to me, I didn't even like his music.  I've got far more important things to think about.

I am sick to the back teeth and beyond of him .  I am fed up of constantly hearing and seeing him .

We should be more concerned with pig flu and finding a cure for cancer .  The sooner his funeral is over and done , the better .

What a charitable lot you all are.  :(  Yes the media has gone way overboard as they ALWAYS DO, I don't suppose his family and friends appreciate it either.  I wasn't a particular fan but always feel sad when anyone dies young, famous or not, and I don't see why MJ should be excluded.

1. he wasnt young, he was middle aged

2. who says we dont feel sad when people die?

3. we dont know him

Yes i agree Annie ns, I am not sad as i didn't know him...but it must be very hard for his family especially his children.

To some of us, 50 is young. :)  Certainly didn't seem to be sadness or sympathy with the posts I read.  Do you actually have to know someone to feel sad at their passing?  Obviously, it isn't the same as losing someone close to you but personally, I can still feel sadness.

Never convicted pedofile then why would he pay that family off? If he was not guilty then you would stand up to that- god no's he had the money to fight but instead he payed them off, in my books that is as guilty as guilty gets!
   You can understand it because you haven't lived or walked in someone with a life like he had. He has little concept of normal. He was advised to settle to make it go away , did he regret settling, reportedly he regretted it 100%.

I am a bit shock at some of the almost aggressiveness repsonses and allegations on here when he was legally proven not guilty.   If there was a shread of evidence you better believe they would have had him.

come on he's an adult- in my eye's that is sick!   In your eyes and probably mine BUT he saw things differently from us he was just as many describe "a peter pan"  I am not saying some of his actions are or were wrong but I think it is a disgrace on an open forum for someone to call someone a pedofile and I am suprised some of these posts have been left.

Heaven help the guilty if tried by some of you :-D

Oh for heaven's sake!

As my son has just said - he was a brilliant pop star, he was a damaged human being.  He is now dead.   What he is/was is now between him and his maker.    Just as he is being buried, let's bury the subject.  

Life goes on, and there are far more terrible things happening that we can or should do something about instead of agonising over someone whose concept of reality was never-neverland!

Oh for heaven's sake!


Not sure if that was for me or not Margot with the way the posts come in but it wouldn't matter who we were talking about surely it is wrong to call someone a pedofile dead or alive.

I agree with you there are more terrible things going on in the world but I don't like to see such comments about people to be honest.

No - not directed at you Blue - I just hit the "reply" button!   What I intended to say is whatever he was, he is now being judged by a greater power than us - let's let it go!

I enjoyed his music as a younger adult, I thinks its sad but Im sick to death of switching on the radio and hearing Michael Jackson CD's.

I think he had a sad life, I never believed he was a pervert, strange but i really didnt, but what a sad sad life destroying your face, body, buying children ( a bit like Madonna) and never really seeming happy!
I did not envy him his life, I think he had a sad ending for someone with so much talent and boy could he dance!

I am a bit shock at some of the almost aggressiveness repsonses and allegations on here when he was legally proven not guilty.

he is now being judged by a greater power than us - let's let it go!

Two of the better responses on this rather sad and slanderous (if he were still alive) thread.

We are all perfectly entitled to an opinion of people and things that happen in life and I know we have some very lively debates, but to call someone a paedophile is a terrible thing to do, particularly when the only 'evidence' is from media, they found nothing incriminating in either case. Unless he were personally known to anyone we should not judge what is written or put out by the media. Personally, I am awaiting Jordie Chandler to one day have a conscience and come clean about what actually 'never' really happened, as a now adult I was hoping he would not wish his memory to be marred any longer, we shall see what happens in the future.

Many will continue to believe the reports, many won't, we shall remain divided but please it is so wrong to call someone a paedophile when nothing has ever been proven.

Think of his poor children having to hear such a terrible word about their beloved father........ and that he certainly was.

I miss him as a performer and show person certainly; to be honest I've thought of him more in the last week than I ever have.

Re the allegations, I've been reading various info in different publications and also remember the original documentary, I've veered from one side to the other in this but now I do think he was innocent and if so, how terrible that many will remember him in that way.  If he is innocent, it is terrible, just terrible and so so sad.

Apparently it was his insurance company that made him pay off the parents.
Macualau Culkin slept with him as a child and supported him, now an adult,  in that nothing happened.
(Granted that doesn't mean nothing ever happened, with another child, but I'd imagine if a paedophile got any boy in bed then he'd act the same and take his chance).
One of the boys was given unethically a "truth" drug by his dentist father (the boy wasn't told, he was just given it while in the chair) and this means the person is very open to suggestion.
I believe one child, not sure which one, has now retracted his "evidence" and admitted he lied.
MJs sister accused him, but was forced to because she was beaten by her husband, she later admitted this.
It's pretty clear people were after MJ for his money to my mind. Liars and hangers on.

and so on, there seems to be nothing which actually stands up to critical thinking except the fact he shared a bed with children, which we all see as wrong. However let's not forget he shared his bed with his brothers when he was a child and that was perfectly normal to him at that time. The rest we can only surmise about.

I can understand people thinking this is all rather naive but I've thought about it a lot and esp. after the Mark Lester interview, I will think of MJ as an innocent person who was deeply affected by the accusations. I expect he is in a better place now and has his own judge/karma, who sees everything, anyway .... :)

Oh,hurray,hurray ,hurray for Carrington and your post.Well said :)

Interesting as well that no one gives a damn, but there are loads of responses and the thread is still being read!

Absolutely nothing to be honest , the only people I feel any sympathy for are his children as they have a big journey ahead of them and having Diana Ross as an alternative 'mother' if MJ's mother dies is very worrying for me knowing what she is like :-(

Two of the better responses

Except for my terrible typing. I am getting worse. LOL  Dear me when I re-read my posts sometimes I am ashamed of my typo errors.

I apologize for that remark and I also heard the child lied! If that statement is true then that is so sad :-( because he is now dead...

I still believe as a grown man he should never have shared a bed with children....

Al Capone was arrested not for being the murderous gangster he was but for tax evasion.........