Michael Jackson's Open Casket Viewing: He Looked "Peaceful"

people.com:

The night before the world paid tribute to Michael Jackson, close family members viewed the entertainer's body in an open casket at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills.

"He looked like himself. He looked like he just was laying there sleeping," says David Fossett, 50, a cousin of Jackson's who grew up with him and still lives in Jackson's hometown of Gary, Ind. "He looked peaceful."

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Comments

[Titus Pullo]

Quite the grotesque spectacle, this entire affair

[Trina Roach]

why? most black funerals/viewings i've ever been to include an open casket if at all physically viable. maybe you need to learn more about other people's rituals before you judge?

[pcpablo]

Sure he looked "peaceful" it was because of the guy who has one of the hardest jobs in America!


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[mondobleu]

Chandler said it best it's "The Big Sleep"

[texhall00]

I loved Michael, but why is it the norm to say how "peaceful one looks"? How else are the death suppose to look? Mad?,Sad? Poor guy I hope his buried by now.

[frantaylor]

This reporting is way over the line.

Leave these poor people alone in their time of grief.

Imagine how you would feel if your family were subjected to this.

[weatherwaxx]

I'd say "No comment."

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

I agree with you. There is a definite line that should not be crossed and the press went well past that.

[ggmome]

Know what? Joe needs to go somewhere and sit his ole self down and put a muzzle on it!

[TheBender]

Peaceful and dead...

[wadenelson1]

Well of course he looked peaceful.

His brain, full of anguish, torment, and plans for additional plastic surgery is in a jar of formaldehyde miles away. It looks all wrinkled and worried.

[newworldman777]

Actually, his brain was most definitely NOT in a jar of formaldehyde. They are analyzing brain tissue samples to try to determine the cause of death, and formaldehyde would destroy the evidence.

[billygore2000]

Jackson hadn't "looked like himself" for years and years.

[AnaisKarim]

Michael Jackson always looked like himself. You just wanted him to look like he did at 12 or 24 forever. Do you look the same way you did in 1985?

[tiffanyroze]

MJ was a hawt babe when he was 24...What a shame he went and changed himself into a old white looking woman.

[Chicago48]

Interesting: his parents were not at the viewing. It probably meant too much heartache for them.

[euripedes923]

I'll bet they were singing, "I'm looking at the man in the bier."
;-)

[seachild]

well, what ELSE is the guy going to say?..'he looked awfully unhappy'!.­.please