Arnotts said:

Michael was most def Jackie, Jermaine and Randy's color, but...well...you know...that's another subject

[Edited 9/30/09 21:58pm]

mimi07 said:

Shiningstarr26 said:

Cause he was!

mimi07 said:

The hat is a bit much.

mimi07 said:

Now see, this would have been the perfect time to ask the question "Who's Bad?"

Superstition said:

so michael j could get his ear bit off

mimi07 said:

Debbie Gibson?

this is for dearmother

goodbye surgical masks

good times





[Edited 10/1/09 0:14am]

Details of Michael's Autopsy Revealed
October 1, 2009

From the Associated Press:

Here are some of the findings from the Los Angeles County coroner's autopsy of Michael Jackson:

_ He was 5-foot-9 and weighed 136 pounds.

_ There were dark tattoos on his eyebrows and around his eyes, a pink tattoo around his lips and what appeared to be a dark tattoo on the front of his scalp.

_ He was balding and suffered from a skin disease that reduced pigment and left patches of white skin.

_ Osteoarthritis was visible in the lower spine and some fingers.

_ He had multiple scars around his body, including behind his ears, along one shoulder, at the base of his neck and near his navel.

_ His heart was strong but his lungs were inflamed. Other organs appeared normal.

_ The anesthetic propofol, four other sedatives, the pain killer Lidocaine and a resuscitative drug were found in Jackson's system. His stomach had no discernible pills.

_ No illegal drugs or alcohol were detected.

_ The manner of death was ruled a homicide based, in part, on the propofol being administered in a non-hospital setting without any appropriate medical need.

_ Consistent with CPR attempts, Jackson had a bruised chest and his sternum and several ribs were fractured.


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LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson's arms were covered with punctures, his face and neck were scarred and he had tattooed eyebrows and lips, but he wasn't the sickly skeleton of a man portrayed by tabloids, according to his autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press.

In fact, the Los Angeles County coroner's report shows Jackson was a fairly healthy 50-year-old before he died of an overdose. His 136 pounds were in the acceptable range for a 5-foot-9 man. His heart was strong with no sign of plaque buildup. And his kidneys and most other major organs were normal.

Still, Jackson had health issues: arthritis in the lower spine and some fingers, and mild plaque buildup in his leg arteries. Most serious was his lungs, which the autopsy report said were chronically inflamed and had reduced capacity that might have left him short of breath.

However, according to the document, the lung condition was not serious enough to be a direct or contributing cause of death.

"His overall health was fine," said Dr. Zeev Kain, chairman of the anesthesiology department at the University of California, Irvine, who reviewed a copy of the autopsy report for the AP. "The results are within normal limits."

Kain was not involved in the autopsy. The full autopsy report has not been released publicly, but the AP obtained a copy.

Jackson died at his rented Los Angeles mansion June 25 after his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, administered the anesthetic propofol and two other sedatives to get the chronic insomniac to sleep, court documents state. Propofol, normally a surgical anesthetic used in operating rooms, acts as a respiratory depressant and requires constant monitoring,

Murray told police he left the room to use the bathroom and phone records show he also made calls for 47 minutes around the time Jackson encountered problems. When Murray realized Jackson was unresponsive, he began frantic efforts to revive him, but Jackson never regained consciousness and was declared dead at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center.

The coroner's office announced last month that Jackson's death was a homicide caused by "acute propofol intoxication," with the other sedatives listed as a contributing factor. They said the standard of care for administering propofol was not met and the recommended equipment for patient monitoring, precision dosing and resuscitation was missing.

Murray is the target of what Los Angeles police term a manslaughter investigation. The decision on criminal charges will come from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Murray has been interviewed twice by police.

Except for a brief video posted to YouTube, Murray has not spoken publicly since Jackson's death. In the video, he said: "I told the truth and I have faith the truth will prevail." Murray's attorney, Edward Chernoff, previously has said nothing Murray gave Jackson "should have" killed him.

Jackson was declared dead a little more than two hours after paramedics were called. Evidence of the desperate struggle to save the star were evident on his body. He had chest bruising and cracked ribs from CPR, and a mechanical device known as a balloon pump was inserted into his heart to try to restart it, according to the autopsy report.

Jackson's body was taken by helicopter to the coroner's office where the following morning Chief Medical Examiner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran and Dr. Christopher Rogers carried out an extensive review and ordered a toxicology screening to look for drugs in his system.

Aside from propofol and the sedatives, the only substances found in his system were the local anesthetic, Lidocaine, sometimes used to numb injection sites and ephedrine, a commonly used resuscitation stimulant.

No other drugs — legal or otherwise — were detected, nor was any alcohol.

Kain said he was surprised that three other sedatives, known as benzodiazepines, were present with propofol. Anesthesiologists sometimes mix one "benzo" with propofol to help put a patient under, but using three increases the danger for the patient.

"People don't mix the benzodiazepines together because they interact with each other and increase the risk of respiratory arrest," Kain said, adding it was likely Jackson first stopped breathing and then suffered cardiac arrest.

The autopsy findings cut off a potential defense for Murray — that Jackson hid serious pre-existing conditions that increased the risk of death from the drugs he willingly took. Even if he did hide a condition such as his weakened lungs, a prosecutor could argue Murray should have detected the condition before administering drugs, said Michael Brennan, a clinical law professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in criminal defense.

"A doctor has some obligation to know what his patient's physical condition is," Brennan said. "The doctor is going to try to substantiate whatever the patient told him ... and not simply rely on a patient's descriptions of his physical condition."

At the time of his death Jackson was preparing for a series of comeback concerts in London. Rehearsals were rigorous and there were questions about whether Jackson would be physically able to hold up.

But aside from his lungs, the autopsy report did not identify any serious physical problems that might have limited Jackson's ability to perform. It also provided details about his physical state from head to toes.

He had a 3/4-inch scar behind his left ear and another apparent scar behind his right ear. He had a scar beside each of his nostrils and another, 4-inch scar on his right shoulder. He had a pair of additional scars about 3-inches long at the base of his neck and smaller scars on his arms and wrist. He also had a small scar near his navel and a 2-inch scar on the right-hand side of his abdomen.

Kain said most of the scars appeared to be from plastic surgery though others, like a scar on the knee, could have been from a medical procedure.

The medical examiner found numerous punctures on both arms and on a knee and ankle. The leg punctures could have been from intravenous therapies not described in the autopsy report, Kain said.

Jackson had several tattoos, all them cosmetic, including dark tattoos in the areas of both eyebrows and under his eyes, and a pink tattoo around his lips.

He was going bald at the front of his head, with his remaining hair described as short and tightly curled. The bald part of his scalp was darkened with what appeared to be a tattoo stretching across the top of his head from ear to ear.

The coroner found depigmentation of his skin around his chest, abdomen, face and arms.

The coroner also found Jackson was actively producing sperm.

I had a sneaking suspision all along that his thinness was being overexaggerated. Now, there's now way to tell how accurate or truthful these reports are, but they certainly seem true enough.

Copycat said:

oh boo i thought he was 5'10!

i'm 5'8 and 115lbs. they def exaggerated his weight..but he looks skinnier to me.

what are the multiple scars from?

also the baldings b/c of pepsi, right?

and his lungs..i wonder what caused that
[Edited 10/1/09 11:27am]

dearmother said:

It's possible that it could be from lupus or sarciodosis. And yeah the baldings are from Pepsi, MJ wore hair pieces for the remainder of his life. They said his actual hair was short and curly with bald spots from the incident.

dearmother said:

Well men and women do weigh different. 115 lbs is normal for a woman at 5'8, but if you're a man at 5'8 and 115 lbs, you're good as dead. Normal weight for man around my height is over 130 lbs and also because MJ's metabolism was different, weight can look perceiving.

yeah

those scars are interesting, also the lungs

nose ones are nose jobs, and neck head maybe from scalp surgery

others from skin conditions..probably unless he got some weird plastic surgery done to parts of his body

he really just seemed to obsess over his face tho

poor mj should still be alive

The coroner also found Jackson was actively producing sperm.

dearmother said:

MJ definitely got skin conditions all over his body.

mimi07 said:

Michael looks like he's telling a funny joke, the mom is giving him the "negro please!" side eye and the kid seems more interested in what the crew is doing