Shock And Grief Over Jackson’s Death

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Late superstar personal physician may be facing trial and possible slammer time! Homicide is cause of death of MJ according to coroners in California.... ILN

ArtsBeat - New York Times Blog
August 24, 2009, 5:05 pm
Coroner’s Findings in Jackson Death Revealed
By Dave Itzkoff
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...pagemode=print

Updated | 5:18 p.m. Michael Jackson died from lethal amounts of the anesthetic propofol, according to the findings of the Los Angeles chief medical examiner that were disclosed in court documents in Houston on Monday.

Mr. Jackson died on June 25 in Los Angeles after going into cardiac arrest. Since then, the Houston offices of his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, have been raided several times by law enforcement officials.

In a search warrant affidavit issued by the district court of Harris County, Texas, on July 22, a Los Angeles law enforcement officer says that an autopsy performed by the office of Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, the Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles, “determined that, at the time of his death, toxicology analysis show that Michael Jackson had lethal amounts of propofol in his blood.”

According to a search warrant issued by Los Angeles County on July 17, Dr. Murray said in an interview with investigators that he had been treating Mr. Jackson for insomnia for six weeks prior to the singer’s death.

Dr. Murray said that he felt Mr. Jackson was becoming addicted to propofol and was trying to wean him off the drug. On June 22, he gave Mr. Jackson a mixture of propofol, lorazepam, the generic form of the anti-anxiety drug ativan, and midazolam, a sedative. On June 23, he gave Mr. Jackson only the lorazepam and midazolam.

At about 1:30 a.m. on June 25, Dr. Murray said, he gave Mr. Jackson a tab of valium. At 2 a.m., he administered lorazepam, and at 3 a.m. administered midazolam. Those drugs were administered again at 5 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., but Mr. Jackson still was unable to sleep.

At about 10:40 a.m., Dr. Murray said, he gave Mr. Jackson 25 milligrams of propofol diluted with lidocaine, at which point Mr. Jackson went to sleep. After about 10 minutes, Dr. Murray said he left to go to the bathroom, and returned to find that Mr. Jackson was no longer breathing. At this point, Mr. Jackson’s security services and 911 were called.

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That doctor is a murderer lol. Even lay people know there should be at least 4hours between administering most medication not to talk of such strong drugs.

[dem]

I went with the kids to see the "This is it" movie last weekend. It is surprisingly quite good; better than I thought it was going to be.

After the movie, a few people clapped. No one left the theatre until the final credits rolled. It was quite emotional.

Seeing the movie though, got me wondering about MJ's death again and all the speculations surronding it. Could it just simply be Dr's incompetence?

Ah, real painful. I really hope his gentle soul has found peace.

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Originally Posted by dem

I went with the kids to see the "This is it" movie last weekend. It is surprisingly quite good; better than I thought it was going to be.

After the movie, a few people clapped. No one left the theatre until the final credits rolled. It was quite emotional.

Seeing the movie though, got me wondering about MJ's death again and all the speculations surrounding it. Could it just simply be Dr's incompetence?

Ah, real painful. I really hope his gentle soul has found peace.

Saw the movie too and it is brilliant movie. Met and exceeded all my expectations. Not that I would have found any to do with Michael wanting even if it was a horrible movie.

The glimpse into the last few months/weeks before his death as depicted in the movie, put his death into proper perspective for me regardless of what the media have said and would continue to say.

For instance, after the death of MJ, reports of him being nothing but a stack of bones who was forced to perform to clear his debt made the rounds in the media, but the film clearly stands as a visual proof against this rumour.
Michael looked his usual skinny self but is certainly not all bones and weak. They energy, enthusiasm and fun in his performance is not in anyway indicative of this at all. His dance was good as ever and singing heart-rending as ever.