A bigger question is whether Madame Tussaud's House of Wax has had to constantly refine its Jacko mannequin to keep up with his ever-changing -- and increasingly gruesome -- looks.

Pax - shame on you!

I ponder whether or not Michael Jackson's death was a physician assisted suicide?  The man was in debt up to his eye balls, had a prescription drug abuse problem and was a walking time bomb from his very unusual life.  It makes complete sense to me that he took his own life to get out of debt because when you die your debts also die so a physician related suicide would be nearly impossible to prove in any court and his life insurance policies would pay off to his beneficiaries who I suspect are his children.

By dying his children are then taken care of, if he had life insurance, and he escapes from what was an obviously miserable existence.

I could hang my hat on this theory.

KLegg, I think you may be onto something. That's the only thing that could explain my earlier comment. He seemed to have some morbid obsession with altering his looks -- as if he hated what he was seeing in the mirrors. He should've stopped when the going was good. He looked just fine in this pic; did he have to keep on going to look more like his fiends ... I mean, friends?

Btw, too bad the King of Pop didn't take a cue from Farrah Fawcett (http://www.reuters.com/arti... and http://www.cathnews.com/art... and turn to the King of Kings -- that might've kept all this from happening: http://www.examiner.com/x-1...

pax: let's hear your theory on Elvis Presley.

If it isn't full of innuendo, double entendre and underhanded references then I have to guess that your racist robes are peeking out from beneath your clothes.

I was just reading that he had lupus, lupus sufferers frequently die in their 40s and 50's from sudden heart attacks, caused by atherosclerosis.

Vitiligo, which Jackson also suffered from, resulting in the famous pigment loss in his skin, is also an auto-immune disease. Coincidentally, vitiligo and lupus are often diagnosed in the same person. African-Americans are four times more like to be lupus victims than Caucasians

Would prescription drug abuse have exacerbated a case of lupus? Only if demerol was injected intravenously, would it also have damaged Jackson's heart. Demerol injected into his muscles would not have played a deadly role and neither would drugs like Xanax and Zoloft.

Dirtyshirt, I doubt taking some "Jesus Juice" and meditating on my WWWAD (What Would Weird Al Do?) bracelet would have changed my tune about MJ, or Elvis for that matter. Both are byproducts of everything that's wrong about society. To wit: http://peterseanesq.blogspo...

It's nice to know I'm not some lone wolf who thinks like this.