Michael Jackson The Farewell

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I think it is a rather nice send off,
Fitting.
Nice to hear others sing his songs

well posted pingping. I think it is best if people are not presumptuous about the race of posters. That is unnecessarily divisive and very low. Let's stick to facts and even opinions.

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Must of been a wonderful place for young boys

I think it was difficult to know how to organise his funeral he was after all a person a son/brother/father and just because he was famous and part of a famous family does not mean that they feel any differently when a loved one is lost.

The family as I understand had a private service before the memorial which was done mainly for his fans and media. If they had kept it private there would have been complaints so they can't win either way.

I feel sorry for the children as they are innocent and they had to say goodbye to their Dad. How was that to be done under the circumstances as he Michael Jackson was the biggest thing to hit pop music.

If they had not attended would that be a regret of theirs in later life???

i saw that, pingping, i've been looking for any footage or any substantiation from a major news service. can't find any.

i think that it's a pretty sick thing to do, to spread that as a virus round the internet, especially if chandler was a victim of child abuse. but then, michael jackson fans are mental.

sorry dead link-neverneverland auction

Michael Jackson has gone up to that great big
"Neverneverland up in the sky"

I think it was a good thing to do, for the kids to look back on when they are older to see how many people paid their respects. When a parent dies the first few days are weeks can be a blurr as you are so shocked.

When my Dad died I was really touched by the many people who came to the funeral, old friends and colleagues we had not seen for years, two people he went to school with, many faces from his past. It made it very special and something that I still value 10 years later.

So I think what they did and how the did it was good for the family and of the fans.

So easy to pour scorn and be nasty.

am ploughing throught the orth articles, fascinating

non hysterical and really worth a read.

God some people's cynicism just makes me so mad.Why shouldn't the children who were closest to him of anyone in the world not want to make their tribute.Why should her grief be hidden away as if its something shameful ?
What a brave wonderful little girl,I am sure her Daddy was looking down on her very proudly.

Totally agree Rhubarb.
Sheesh....

Interesting that an abused child can accurately draw his willy. You don't think that is possibly a bit suspicious?

Ah, somebody read my post! Thank you!

i think it's very suspicious, tdiddy.
i read your post, rhubarb, i was just puzzled that there had to be 'a point' to the discussion. the discussion is the point, surely, on a forum. otherwise there'd be a lot of blank space.

Rhubarb- I also very much agree with your post. can't keep up and had better get back to work now.

Rhubarb: "If he were alive, it may be pertinent to discuss these things, since he still had access to children. But now that he's dead, leaving his own children fatherless, I do wonder about the point of discussing his supposed guilt."

What about the experiences of the children who may have been abused. How do they feel if everyone goes around proclaiming his innocence?

Should we whitewash every bit of history once some of the participants are dead?

Yes but Aitch the OP was about MJ's farewell, not allegations of child abuse. Maybe another thread should be started for that?

Aitch, I wondered about the point of discussing it on a thread that was clearly started as a tribute.

If the thread was entitled 'Jackson, Guilty or Not?' then fair enough, but it isn't. Surely when you clicked on the thread you realised that? But of course, you are entitled to argue the toss.

should it? is that how things normally work on here? i hardly think so. conversations progress, the farewell has been covered. i thought it looked quite fitting, as it happens, but i don't think the kids should have been onstage.

on another subject, i am a bit perplexed by brooke shields emotional speech. it is widely reported (although, granted that could be incorrect) that the last time she saw mj was in 1991, that's 18 years ago.

if it had been entitled 'michael jackson: the farewell - only post here if you agree that he wasn't a child molester and found the memorial service delightful' then you might have a point, rhubarb.

i thought that was pretty touching, the idea of him and brooke shields having a laugh together when they were both superstar kids. i don't suppose you need to still be friends with someone to feel the loss of their passing, memories of happier times etc.

Yes Aitch, I noticed quite early on in the thread that some posters were only too keen to point out the abuse allegations and pour scorn on his funeral.

I issed this yesterday, is there anywhere online I can watrch it??

i'm very keen to point out the abuse allegations, i think they're unbelievably important and absolutely should not be forgotten.

haven't poured any scorn on the memorial service, quite the opposite.

MJ had a long and rigorous trial and was found not guilty.End of.
Don't really understand the Jordan Chandler one,it must have been a civil case not a criminal one if MJ was able to pay him off ?
Why wouldn't the police have pressed charges in Chandler's story was credible ?