Given the circumstances, I find it hard to hold Michael even partly responsible for his own death. Addiction is a disease and ALL these doctors (not to mention the media and public) are accountable for feeding that addiction when they knew better. Dr. Murray is the scapegoat, but many others are responsible too. They were simply (for lack of a better word) fortunate that it wasn’t their day to be prescribing meds to him. All of them need to pay the price for their recklessness and I hope they all go down.

The saddest part of all of this for me is the loss to his children. I selfishly think about how his loss impacts me and yet I don’t even know him. I can’t even imagine the devastation for his children. Paris was obviously a Daddy’s girl who often clung to her Dad so not having him there anymore must be a tremendous loss for her. For all the talk about his supposed ‘weirdness’, I don’t think anyone ever doubted he was probably even a better father than entertainer.

I’m just angry that we lost him so soon….and in such a manner. I can’t help but notice the irony in this statement from his book Moonwalk:

”I myself have never even tried drugs, no marijuana, no cocaine, nothing I mean, I haven’t even tried these things, forget it. This isn’t to say we were never tempted. We were musicians doing business during an era when drug use was common. I don’t mean to be judgmental it’s not even a moral issue for me ‘“ but I have seen drugs destroy too many lives to think they are anything to fool with. I am certainly, not angel, and I may have my own bad habits, but drugs aren’t among them’ .