Michael Jackson to be buried without his brain

[steven johnson]

Apparently this standard operating procedured for the coroner.

Michael Jackson will be buried without his brain today after doctors retained it following an autopsy to help determine the cause of death.

The King of Pop will be saluted in grand fashion at the Staples Centre memorial ceremony, and reportedly laid to rest at Los Angeles's Forest Lawn cemetery. However, the LA coroner's office has still not completed its tests on Jackson's brain, and the singer's family have been advised that unless they wish to wait, he must be buried without it.

Jackson died from an apparent cardiac arrest on 25 June. Though his body was released the next day to relatives, his brain was not. The pop star's inert brain must "harden" for at least two weeks before doctors can conduct their neuropathology tests.

Removing the brain is the "only way to carry out the tests" according to a source for the Mirror. "The tissue has to be examined. I can't tell you how long that is going to take."

Michael Jackson to be buried without his brain

[Ron Green]

1. "I could while away the hours..."

- Yip Harburg

[Catshrink]

2. Here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=210

[Turbineguy]

3. I understand that is normal

for autopsied persons.

[Ocracoker16]

4. I read that here a few days before the memorial service

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Well, MJ WAS the Scarecrow in The Wiz . . . .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078504/

[damntexdem]

6. Oh, then was he a Republican?

Oh, I see, he had one -- it just won't be buried with him. OK, I guess he wasn't necessarily a Republican, after all. ;-)

[Jennicut]

7. Quite interesting if I was not eating my dinner while reading this.

Hey, they gotta do tests. At least he will be given a proper burial.

[RagAss]

8. I see a "B" movie on the horizon !

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. No big deal - George Bush was born without one and he made president

[butterfly77]

11. Exactly, he was brain dead

[greguganus]

10. A brain memorial is being planned for Staples in 3 weeks. n/t

[Critters2]

13. !

:rofl:

[Life Long Dem]

12. Isn't cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest that...

the brain function can still be alive but the heart is what dies?

[crimsonblue]

16. in cardiac arrest...

blood flow is blocked to the heart, meaning blood cannot be pumped out to the brain and periphery of the body. As the body and other organs require gas exchange in order to carry out cellular respiration, prolonged absence of oxygen means that the tissues will atrophy and die. Also, the heart itself can atrophy and its tissues die, meaning that the ability to circulate oxygenated blood is greatly diminished or halted altogether.

[TexasObserver]

14. Somewhere, someone is already working on a youtube video ...

... Home Alone Five, MJ's Brain

[greguganus]

15. Or changing the song lyrics of "Ben" to "Brain".

Brain, the two of us will be no more...

Can't help I have a warped sense of humor.