Gunbot wrote:portland wrote:OK - they just said that the Jacskon family has set up a paypal account to help pay for the service?!
I don't mind that. Jackson albums are holding nine of the Top 10 spots in digital downloads. People are going to spend money on Michael regardless. If they want to pay for this, more power to them. It's their money. If it saves the city from paying for it, that's fine with me.
Wait a minute! The CITY is paying for this????
Are you kidding me??? 
Since when does the city pick up the funeral expenses for a family, especially a family that has the money to afford one? This is absolutely ludicrous! 
Did the family really have the gaul to set up a PayPal account to pay for the funeral??? I think I'm going to throw up now... 
The really sad thing is that Farrah Fawcett fought a very long, hard, and painful battle with cancer and she was immediately forgotten about on the day of her death because of Michael's.
Not that either could have really planned that sort of thing, but I feel so bad for her family/friends that their loss was completely ignored and overlooked. It's as if Farrah simply disappeared off the face of the earth, rather than succumbed to a horrific disease that her family/friends, as well as the world, witnessed for years.
I have more of an emotional attachment to Farrah, as I thought she turned into a fantastic actress (the 'Burning Bed' and 'Extremities' are 2 of my favorite movies and I grew up on 'Charlie's Angels'), than I do with Michael. Although talented, his style of music really wasn't mine, so I'm not really feeling any kind of personal loss. :::shrug:::
I definitely don't feel that Michael is deserving of this grandious level of attention, as I feel it is complete overkill, and to distribute tickets to a memorial service is beyond tasteless! I can see it if it were to a tribute concert to benefit charities that Michael felt strongly about, but a funeral??? Yikes!
And, you KNOW that huge tribute concert is coming, right?
