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Michael Jackson dead- update cites possible opiate OD

Im sure most of you heard the shocking news today about Michael Jackson dying? I couldn't believe it. I just read an article update a few minutes ago and it says he reportedly had taken a shot of Demerol shortly before going into respiratory and cardiac arrest. I had no idea he was an opiate addict (the article also states he had a prior history of pain pill addiction!) had anyone else ever heard this about him? This was news to me. So tragic...
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come on guys.......ARE you SERoUs??????  I knew he was a popper...takes one to know one.......:-/.......Very SAd.......tragic & no surprise to me, anyway.  I can spot a popper a mile away, besides every serious dancer out there is a popper...."Paula"....lol........

Seriously, It is soooooooooo  very sad. I thought MJ  was awesome!  

Could you imagine MJ at 60 or 70.....even 80??  No!  wasn't gonna happen. I pray he Rest in Peace!!!

Moon Walkin in Heaven.....

Nautylllllll
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Regardless of what we think of Jackson, his life style, or his music, we need to rememeber his family, and Farrahs family, to me what is sad is that his death seems to have over shadowed Farrahs so much, they are both sad, and I do hope the child abuse issue is false if noy he may know how wrong he was now.

PS What a good Dr he must have had!!!!
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611067 tn?1458591483
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Very well said!  My heart goes out to both families!  On the news tonight there was SPECULATION that he might have been given demoral via injection before he died - this is so sad.
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256607 tn?1248899504
WORD!!!
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I have to say that you covered everything and you covered it quite well......thank you.
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Thankyou, is all i can think to say. That is an awesome tribute and obviously from the heart.
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The death of both Ms. Fawcett and Mr. Jackson, is sad....  I will not presume to know if Mr Jackson was addicted to opiates, however it is well documented he was in treatment at Betty Ford for prescription drug addiction following his accident filming a Pepsi commercial, years ago.  To me, Michael Jackson was a music genius,  eccentric yes, but his talent and contribution to music is  limitless.     We all wanted to look like Farrah and dance like Michael......   but my thoughts go to their families.

I think of the son (Redmond O'Neal), unable to be with his mother, at her bedside  when she passed, due to his horrific drug addiction and incarceration from years of drug abuse and arrests.  Farrah's  son, whom the last time he saw his mother, was shackled at  his feet and in a jail jumpsuit.    I cannot imagine his grief, nor the guilt he will undoubtedly feel to the core of his being, probably for the rest of his life.

I think of three very young children that are left as orphans, the only parent they have known and loved was their father.  Judge the man as you wish, but do you not feel compassion  for the loss and pain  his children  will know for the rest of their lives?

I guess simplistically, I see a young son sitting in jail while his mother is dying., unable to hold her hand or touch her face one last time....  and that must be killing him inside.   Due to his drug addiction.  I see 3 children grieving for the loss of  their father due to possible drug addiction.  And it breaks my heart.

Drug addiction and all of its devastating ramifications is so very  tragic.  May God bless both families.
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I wish I could say I am surprised but I am not. I expected as much. I had a friend that popped pills, any kind you could think of, uppers and downers and then smoked weed, drank and in the middle of the night, Her heart literally burst. Instant death. People just dont realize they are killing themselves. He was probably on other stuff too cause at 50, you just dont have the stamina to continue to move like you did at 25. So sad! Thanks for the update.
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942290 tn?1252618549
I wondered about that myself.  I would not be surprised some heavy narcotic addiction was the cause, nor would it be totally unusual for it not be natural causes.


I seen last night, they taped a quote from his accusers(the kid) father saying  "either way ,I am going to get millions for him"

wow, so the kids dad cared more about "the money" then what happened to his kid ,that he knowingly let hang out with jackson...........thats fishy for sure
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We can't really know until they do the autopsy.  Let's not jump to conclusions.  If it was pills and opiates, it is very sad.  And a huge wake-up call to me.  He once said that he felt alone all the time.  Rest in peace, Michael.  

Say what you will about him, but he brought a lot of joy into people's lives and he broke the mold in the world of music.
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Am I sad that Michael went out this way........yes, of course I am - - No man is an Island, entire of himself......so dont ask for whom the bell tolls.....it tolls for thee........  Am I surprised?  Not a bit.  

RIP both Michael and Farrah
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495284 tn?1333894042
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I am more saddened by Farrah Fawcett's passing.......
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I thought they would find prescription drugs to be the result of his death. The news said that they think that after the autopsy and after talking to Jackson’s doctors that this might make Anna Nicole Smith’s case look like peanuts.  yes, what a shame, but the children of the world will be safer now.

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