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The LA County coroner’s office has released details from the autopsy of Michael Jackson.
The coroner stated that Jackson’s death was the result of “acute propofol intoxication”. The report stated that the powerful drug was sufficient for major surgery.
Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, allegedly administered the drug to Jackson for relief of insomnia. The coroner also indicated that propofol is not a known remedy for insomnia, nor was the drug administered with the recommended equipment – from a controlled infusion pump for intravenous administration to monitoring machines.
Murray was charged earlier this week with involuntary manslaughter. He was released on bail yesterday. If convicted, Murray could spend four years in jail.
Other details from the autopsy showed that Jackson was extremely underweight for his body size. The singer had white patches of skin throughout his body, most likely from the disease vitiligo. It was white patches on his hand that prompted the singer to start wearing one sequenced glove in the early eighties.
Further details revealed that Jackson had dark tattoos on his face near his eyebrows and a pink tattoo near his lips. The star was also balding and much of his hair was fake. His hairline was also tattooed on.
At the time of his death, Jackson was suffering from “chronic lung inflammation, respiratory bronchiolitis, diffuse congestion and patchy hemorrhage of right and left lungs.” In addition to propofol, the autopsy revealed that Jackson’s blood contained traces of lidocaine, diazepam, nordiazepam, lorazepam, midazolam and ephedrine.
how can they charge a involuntary manslaughter..seriously looks like it is voluntary ..nobody need this much sedatives to catch a small sleep..and those were infused thru vein …heavy doses….nobody will use a big tank to kill an ant…nobody needs this much sedatives to catch a sleep…if these drugs are administered in any human body anyone will die w/o any doubt…(slim or fat or a muscle man)
I read that his liver and kidney were healthy and normal no mention of that?
Dear Readers,
Michael Jackson always maintained that he had vitiligo and did not bleach his skin to resemble a white person, contrary to accusations leveled at him by the mostly white media community. Even the American black community, constantly exposed to these salacious and inaccurate reporting, began to question Jackson’s pride in being a proud member of the African American community — although he has time and again reiterated his loyalty to his roots. Now that the autopsy results have vindicated him — he did suffer from vitiligo — the media has not only been downplaying the fact that they have falsely accused Jackson of abandoning his own race, in so doing, driving a wedge between the singer and his own community — a heinous crime to say the least — they have the audacity to taunt him about his so-called “messed up body” hailing it as revelatory findings of the autopsy.
It doesn’t take a genius to read between the lines, to know that almost every article on Michael Jackson, before or since his death, in the mainstream media has been purposefully slanted and hopelessly biased.
I have long heard rumours about the media witchhunt against Michael Jackson based on racial discrimination but always dismissed it as some conspiracy theory, until it became too obvious for me to ignore. My professional background in journalism also dictates that I apply simple rules of content analysis and semiotics to my reading. Perhaps due in part to my training, I have developed a keen eye for picking out inflammatory language disguised as factual reporting.
I am not an African American. I am a Singapore-born Chinese so I cannot be accused of being biased or racially motivated on this matter. I implore you to take a studied look at what I have just written about the media and their utterly unprofessional handling of Michael Jackson news — throughout his courtroom trials and ongoing coverage following his passing. You be the judge!
P.S.: If you agree with my assessment, I urge you to ‘copy and paste’ this comment on every forum discussion (or in the ‘reply to media commentary’ section) on Michael Jackson. It’s about time the truth got out.
Editorial Response:
Chan, I appreciate your views on the “media”. I also agree that many outlets did accuse him of bleaching his skin to look more white and have not owned up to the fact that they were probably wrong. With that being said, my title about Jacko being messed up was not off base. Jackson was pumped up with enough drugs to kill a cow, his lungs were in traumatic shape, and he had a synthetic nose due to too many elective surgeries. If that’s not messed up then I don’t know what is.
You wrote about your journalistic intuition and alluded that that is what drove you to write your assessment, but I think your real motivation is that you are a big Michael Jackson fan and don’t like the straight up way that the truth is now being told. I can respect that too. I wore a sequenced glove to school when I was in fourth grade, but the truth is the truth.
Debates about whether Mr Jackson ‘asked’ or ‘paid’ for the treatment he received are profoundly irrelevant. Michael was not a doctor, he had no degree, and he had no letters after his name.
Doctor Murray, however, did. And It was within his scope, remit and responsibilty to determine whether or not his treatment would help or hinder his patient – not the other way round.
I wonder sometimes reading the comments on the web, if people truly understand what chronic insomnia is and what it does to a person to go through their day – everyday, knowing that the night will not bring rest and rejuvenation. Clearly, Michael was desperate to sleep, and we have all heard Kenny Ortega speak about how frustrating Michael found his insomnia. So any idea that this was a situation Michael enjoyed or wanted is ludicrous.
Yes, Michael was taking an extreme drug to aid his sleep and undoubted to suppress years of living with anxiety, tension and high stress – but he was also entitled to a substantially better duty of care than Doctor Murray provided. The truth, as always, is a lot more complicated than just one greedy ‘concierge’ Doctor and a rich ‘addict.’
In April, when Doctor Murray stands up to give account of himself in court, in a morally accurate world when he turns to his left and right he would be one of many. Standing alongside him, would be Tom Sneddon and those members of the media that hystericized the American public with gross misinformation and inflated hearsay about Michael Jackson for over 15 years; without remorse, limit or professional integrity.
Because what brought this gentle soul to the place of abject pain and suffering he endured, and ultimately to his early death – was hate, ridicule, greed, fear, non-understanding and judgement. And we allowed it to happen. All of us.
We allowed it to happen.
We must never forget MJ. Spread love, like he did.. The greatest person ever..
Michael Jackson dying was a huge surprise for me, although taking into account his situation it was possibly not so shocking. The child abuse charges pressed upon him sparked the beginning of his spiralled decline in his health. As soon as he started to abuse medicines to merely get by, that was the moment there came to be no way back, IMHO.