Comments on: Michael Jackson’s Solid Bronze Gold-Plated Coffin

By: Dan Reed

Dan Reed — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:42:29 +0000

I have no qualms about mj having a gold casket but the jackson family ordering 3 gold caskets that is blind stupid and I am sure mj would have had some words to say to this family I bet I also thought sending a empty gold casket to the memorial service was a really low thing to do by the jackson family personally and every jackson family knowing it was a empty casket apart from jermane what was that all about? after telling the world they feared mj remains to be stolen! goodness sake there was more security and police at mj service than at princess diana’s funeral yet still still there was no chance dianas remains to be even taken dispite having less police and security at services to me the jackson family overreacted and clearly panicked clearly. I think both people died in such awful ways was awful but jacksons funeral was a fantastic send off but taking a empty casket was totally a insult to his fans whom he and the jackson clan we had made them millions and this was the thanks we got! to jackson family saying they feared mjs remains to be stolen was observed and ridiculous I just hope now mj is at peace where ever he is at rest. As I do have strong doubts hes at forest lawn personally but that is my opinion Rip mj and Princess Diana god bless to both D Reed Shropshire uk

By: terrez

terrez — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:47:50 +0000

do you think sooooooooo! i am sad and i am getting some juicy details i am getting closer if hes dead or not wish me luck

By: Louie Goad

Louie Goad — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:50:08 +0000

Well, I see many $100,000 RV’s in Tucson, $65,000 Trucks. $25,000 casket! SO WHAT! Why should some be at rest in the manner inwhich they lived! I lived having nuthing but pay check to pay check! I would love to be able to have the best of the best eaven at the end of my work days.

By: Fishy

Fishy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:08:27 +0000

I’ve heard that in Haiti, all coffins are embedded in concrete to prevent voodoo practitioners from harvesting the body parts. Jackson has something worse to fear: fangirls! Some of which are very creepy and deranged…

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:24:05 +0000

Yeah, I’m with you on that one.

By: Kirsten Lioba

Kirsten Lioba — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:48:58 +0000

I agree with what most people posted here. In most cultures we make a big fuss about wha’ts
left of us. For my part it should be something that composts like cardboard or wood with no color or any other kind of foo-foo on the box. I can’t see it anymore anyway. What’s all the foo-foo for, anyway, the soil or the earthworms?
I come from from Germany. In earlier times, people there were traditionally buried in a long, nightgown-like shirt. A saying came out of this tradition which is still used today: “ the last shirt has no pockets”.
You can’t take it with you, folks…

By: shroudwoman

shroudwoman — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:02:50 +0000

As a cemetery worker who owns a Green Burialcompany(www.greenburialproducts.com) and has been working hard to educate the Funeral Industry and the public to make this Green choice available I think the Jackson families choice was perfect!

Michael Jackson’s funeral although so gigantic globally highly visible was none the less a very typical African American funeral.
African American funerals are always very large, highly glamourous, extremely spiritual , highly respectful and spare no expense no matter what.(I have seen people bring in paper sacks full of cash to the funeral home collected from an entire neighborhood to pay for the very best casket for someone’s Mother.)
I think Michael Jackson’s funeral and the casket choices made for him were perfectly appropriate for his highly successful international stature and his African American cultural roots.
Just as an observed Hindu cremation is perfect for that culture, a Muslim shroud burial sitting up facing Mecca is perfect and a Green burial in a meadow in a natural shroud is perfect for the person choosing that.
Green Burial is about making this choice available to those who want it – NOT about conversion.
An elderly Catholic Italian matriarch is NEVER going to choose to go straight into the ground wrapped naked in a biodegradable shroud ! ( but her granddaughter might.)
People like myself are working hard day and night to have Green choices available to the public in terms of cemeteries , products and funeral practices to people who want Green Burial- NOT to people who don’t.
written by shroudwoman , July 08, 2009

By: jeanruss

jeanruss — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:45:25 +0000

I also read that it will be embedded in concrete. To what purpose?

By: jaguin9968

jaguin9968 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:31:21 +0000

Considering he hadn’t updated his will since 2002, something tells me he didn’t think ahead to a casket choice, so this was likely his family’s choice, not his own. Besides, can we have a little respect for the departed, here? Picking on a choice of entombment? Give me a flipping break!

By: Livin Veg

Livin Veg — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:24:24 +0000

Just did a post on how to be eco when you die:) If you’re interested in how to be more environmentally friendly in life and death, check it out…