Kids are safe now!!!!

Yes, that's a damn good question?  Hopefully its never Yoko

My guess is Macaulay Culkin...

RIP Michael... He may have been fucked up lately, but he was amazing back in the 80s...

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

Surgeons are now looking at the Man in the MRI.

his masked kids?

saw this on a website today

Jordan .

 hahah nice.

ok i finally have my reaction to this (i pulled my second 12-hour day in a row yesterday so i wasn't quite as on top of this as i could be). choose whichever you like best:

1. This is the most mundane, everyday thing michael jackson has done in 20 years.

2. a lithe, feminine icon with long beautiful hair died yesterday. oh, and farah fawcett kicked the bucket, too.

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

I'm sure there are worse ways to be raised than as MJ's son.  Surely they have always had a team of caretakers. Even 12 is young enough to be able to take a drastic life change and bounce back. I mean, they have been kept out of the limelight for the most part, which is amazing. That seems to be more irrevocably damaging than just having a weirdo in the public eye for a dad.

I suspect that there will be a slew of unauthorized bios, much like those that Marilyn Monroe spawned. You can't libel the dead and it is just too good of a story not to turn into an adult fairy tale.  Probably a molestor, but still one of the most fascinating characters of the century. 

Didja read that Madonna can't stop crying? Bet she's feeling the reaper at her heels. 

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

 I don't really see a difference between plastination and a Mme. Tussaud's dummy.  It's all just lifeless matter. 

However, Tussaud's wouldn't memorialize obese, drug addicted Vegas Elvis.  Why would anyone preserve the memory of the travesty that was the deformed, child molesting Micheal Jackson?  Maybe von Hagen can make him look like he did circa Bad with his magic. You know, black. With a nose.

 Yes. 

I am quite sure this rumor was squelched pretty much the moment it came to light last Thursday though.

Dead human matter -- a corpse or any human remains -- have been viewed with respect throughout history from the Iliad forward to war remains and even body parts from 9/11.  I wouldn't expect that everyone sees eye to eye with that li'l extra sumpin sumpin about loved ones remains but... most people do.  Books could be written on why that is.  

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

But if a consenting adult agrees to it, why should anyone have the right to stop it? It's totally victimless.

..............hmmm

Wait, are we dicussing plasticization, or gay marriage?

edit: Let's outlaw everything that makes people feel kind of icky at the expense of freedom!

Respectful is really subjective. Cultural norms about these things shift

Should mummies be removed from museums because it's morally repugnant to do anything with a body other than burn or bury it, even if future generations can be entertained and informed by putting it on display or having it otherwise used by the living? Should bodies not be used for ballistics testing, organ harvesting, or forensics research at the Body Farm?

The death taboo is really weird. Bataille says burial rituals and avoidance/horror of corpses are how the living say no to death.  He says because death (and pleasure) is opposed to work, it makes everything pointless.

Much more risky to the ego to get intimate with death. But it's not for everyone, I guess.