They're reusing James Brown's coffin? Gross!

Zombie James is going to kick zombie Michael's butt.

"wacko as Jacko"?

Really?

Lovely blog

you're stupid it's not the same michael's is 14 karrat james's was 24 karrat!!

My understanding of Electroplating is that the gold is always 24k, because only pure gold atoms are attracted to the energized surface, leaving the other metals in the slag.

$25k seems like not such a crazy price to me. It's not like he's being buried next to Marilyn Monroe or anything.

Hef's funeral will probably be no less lavish.

"Maybe it befits such a wacko as Jacko", disrespecting someone that has passed is just plain wrong.

what a waste of perfectly good gold! Guess the archaeologists of 4015 will find it and think he was the emperor.

I wonder if the gold will magically turn into silver over the coming 10 years... After all, it is MJ we're talking about here... Stranger things have happed!

I just don't know, Michael isn't even aware of what is going on. The remains that are put in that very expensive container is just the shell Michael lived in. I just think in view of all the suffering and poverty that we have that it's wrong to spend money like that. $25,000 that's a lot of money. I'm not saying Michael doesn't deserve it, I'm just saying I think the money could be spent in a better way, on something or someone else that needs help. Michael, Rest In Peace!!!

I think the city of LA would like to recover that amount of money to pay its security and crowd management personnel.

Even broke...this guy can spend more in one day than I can the whole year.

@h You're so right. The city is so broke that they had to cancel ALL summer school classes in the entire district, but now they have to pay (estimated at over a million and half dollars) for police and emergency personnel for all the wackos going to the memorial service. The city should put a lien on that coffin and anything else the family owns.

a cristal coffin would of been what he wanted

He was massively talented and, probably treatably, disturbed, but I doubt it was in his will to be buried in that thing. I imagine it's his family who is prompting this public funded ceremony. Shouldn't they, or the record label, be picking up the tab for all this publicity?

I liked just about all of his work, but I'd be perfectly content to see a studio based ceremony, attended by just family and very close friends, on live TV. If fans need to see eachother face to face, just hold regional gatherings with the same live feed that they're showing to ticket holders at the Nokia stadium next door.

i think Michael Jackson deserves a coffin like that.. let's jUst accept it..

HE IS NOT AN EMPEROR>>HE IS THE KING OF POP......HE CHANGE OUR MUSIC INDUSTRY....

So stop..commenting aBout his Cofiin...you dont care!....

I think everyone should keep their mouth shut. It is his earning so we have nothing to say. Looking at his contribution i think its ok.

the cost is okey. For the legend this is budget cost in economic crisis..peace

I'm sorry, this is absurd. Normally, I'm of the opinion that the dead have paid their dues, and should be treated with respect, but I'm sick of people venerating a guy who, for all intents, was an entertainer.

"He is the king of pop"... SO freaking What? No one "deserves" a gold plated coffin.

"He changed the music industry".. Again, SO freaking What? Of all aspects of civilization to change, the music industry should be at the bottom of every human's list. There are much bigger problems in the world, than needing catchy songs without a main bass line.

He revolutionized something, and that's to be applauded, it takes a lot of talent and a ton of skill to do that. But it wasn't something that NEEDED revolution. People still starve, animals are still treated cruelly, war is everywhere, governments are still corrupt, and new and deadly infections are popping up all over the world. Change one of those, you deserve some coffin bling.

Cool! Just like Michael the coffin won't decompose either.

Looks very Lavish which fits him well. RIP MJ.

Didn't Michael offer $1 million for Joseph (John?) Merrick's remains - The Elephant Man??? What say someone skeletonize MJ and put his remains up for bid? The money could be used for something more worthy than a gold casket, and donated to someone who actually needs the cash.

I Love You Very Much Michael!!!

Michael you are worth every bit of 25K and more. You will be greatly missed.

I think Michael deserves that coffin. I wish everyone stop hating and respect the family and fans. This is crazy how people sit around and worry about other people's money. People need to worry about their own money and not his. Get a life haters.

it does not matter if it is 14 or 24 karrat gold.
you put the thing in the ground and you never see it again,

Michael worked very hard all his life. he deserved the best. rest in peace

no matter how much micheals coffin was its beautiful and the great icon deserves the best always.I watched the service memorial on tv it was so touching i cried through the whole thing it was beautiful.i pay my greatest respects to the jackson family and micheals parents and micheals childrean paris said her dad has been there ever since she was born she loved her daddy very much and will miss him to well said paris your a beautiful young lady well said about your dad hes the greatest his legacy will live in my heart for a very very long time, and millions of millions of people all around the world.take care and god bless thats what micheal would want love cheryl young niagara falls ontario.

@Annette

What some people are upset with is that it isn't Michael's money that paid for that spectacle of a memorial service. The city had to shell out several million for police, emergency services, clean up, etc. Part of that happens to be MY money, so I do have the right to speak up about how it is spent.

If Jackson's estate can afford a gold casket, then they can afford to reimburse the city for the costs of the memorial service.

It's absurd that public money is being spent on a lavish for private citizen whose family obviously has the means to pay for it themselves.

I could care less how the Jacksons spend their money, but I do care about how MY tax money is spent.

WHAT IF MICHAEL JACKSON CAME BACK TO HAUNT EVERYBODY THAT IS TALKIN' MESS ABOUT HIM?? IF HE DID, WHAT IF IT WAS SO BAD THAT LORRAINE WARREN COULDN'T SAVE YOU?? SORRY JACKSON FAMILY, BUT THIS IS MY CHANCE TO MAKE MY OWN VERSION OF THRILLER. APPARITIONS ARE REAL!!!!!! FAH K THE MEDICAL EXPLANATIONS AND THE SKEPTICS!!!!!!!!!! BY THE WAY THE "COFFIN" WAS BAD ASS. I'D SPEND THAT MUCH ON THAT!!!

In french here :

http://actuzine.com/wordpress/2009/07/04/le-cercueil-de-michael-jackson-est-avance/

you can always tell those who are haters it doesn't matter how much money was spent and by who we the nation of the world lost our greatest treasure we were all so very lucky to be able to hear,watch and be loved by the late great Micheal J, Jackson ( I will miss ya Bro when you hug your brother in heaven hug my mother and tell her i am doing my best to make it there when my time comes

The freak show continues...

It may be wrong to talk about the dead like that, but what about a dead guy that's a child molester? Lets face it, the only reason why MJ didn't die in prison was because he paid off the family to keep quiet. I have no problems talking about him AND I have no problems discussing how ridiculous a gold plated coffin is. The guy is dead and the world is better for it.

He is STILL a MONSTER, pedophile and freak all rolled into one. Him dying will never make that go away, stop making him look like some kind of hero. The guy should have been sent to prison to get his truly deserved ending. Just remove the wig, fake nose and makeup and show the MONSTER for what he really was. Stop covering up his ugliness.

What business is it of ours? They didn't ask us for the money. Not our business.

I don't think he was a pedophile. People saw a way to make money off of him. It would have been easy to prove had it been true. Not true, though. Not provable. And I agree, it's not our business what his coffin is. We are not paying for it.

Heck, I want one like this too. :)

Yeah, it's a bit extrav... but I'm worth it.

Its nothing compared to the money he spent decorating his body in real life. All that plastic surgery had to cost millions.

WOW-LISTEN TO JELOUSY--THATS WHY YOULL NEVER BE OR HAVE ANY THING YOUR SELVES--WORRIED ABOUT WHAT SOMEONE ELES HAS--ITS HIS WHATS YOUR PROBLEM!!

Michael Jackson sucks. I like his pre-crazy music, but the last 20 years of him sucked.

from what I hear, with the record sales that MJ's death is producing is enough to pay for that coffin by the time i get done writing this comment

Michael Jackson deserved to be buried in a gold casket.. his family deemed fit to decide
what they wanted for him. you all are haters.. if you could afford to buy one for your beloved family member you would.So stop with the hate. Lets have love and peace in our hearts.

I couldn't care less how someone else's money is spent. That won't change the fact that it is pure show biz and tacky (so what else is new?) - yet commenting about how else that cash could be spent is a bit silly. The money wasn't exactly taken away from a 'feed the starving, house the homeless' kind of fund, was it!

About the only people who might be particularly interested are the modern wannabe grave robbers, I'd guess.

What the expensive coffin will do for him now?
We never die, only the body dies.
The subtle body consists of the soul, false ego, mind and intelligence or lack of it. That is what goes with us when we so-call die.
Is better to have the body burned, so the spirit can move on.
We can have a respectable ceremony for the soul who once resided in it, then burn it and throw the ashes in a river or ocean or whatever the family find suitable.
Let's stop polluting Mother Earth and wasting land space with all these silly expensive caskets and tombstones. There are better ways of honoring the souls who have passed on, other than worshiping their dead carcasses with flowers at some gravesite.
Even in the Bible it is stated, "Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust." The airtight boxes we are putting in the ground today will never become ashes or dust. Believe me; no one is going to "rest in peace" in that box.
There are innumerable disembodied souls hanging around because no one performed a very simple ceremony that could have been done after their death. (Cremation) Burning the body after death could help that situation immensely.

Awe, Chris. All of those evils you mentioned will always be with us. But, on the bright side, there are always people in this world who are making a difference in their corner of it. I don't judge Micheal. He has the same judge as the rest of us and fortunately for us, He judges with more grace than the rest of us do. I do feel that the attention Micheal's death and funeral are getting is excessive, though.

It's fit for a king and thats what he was. The choice of casket was not Mike's doing it was what his family wanted to make them feel better. He would have rather donated that money than it being spent on him. But it didn't happen that way. Lets just thank God for him and what he has done for the sick starving and poor. It's more than I think the majority of us have ever done. Let him have this. If we lived that kind of lifestyle like they do, then the price would't be an object for us either.

I know there are so many things to do!..There are CRIMES,GLOBAL WARMING,GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS..ETC,.And me too, Iam affected by those crisis?ALL OF US

Let ME ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS:
1. will that 1 gold coffin will STOP the crimes that we encountered today,right now and forever?
2. will that 1 gold coffin will SAVE the earth today, right now and forever??
3.will that 1 gold coffin will SOLVE the global finacial crisis today??
Of CORSE NOT!!..BIG NOT!!!!

SO THIS IS MY POINT TO YOU:CHRIS!
-Let michael jackson to lay in his gold coffin, because his WHOLE FAMILY WANTED him to to find his peace in there..Let him to go freely without any bad comments from other people. He's gone..bUt ♥UNFORGETTABLE!♥
jUst LooK at hiS Contribution to this INDUSTRY! ALL OF IT...Let him to lay there he deserves it,--YOU TOO!deserve it...Its YOURS too..

What a waste of money. I guess they can reuse the coffin once the John Merrick Foundation wins the rights to buy HIS bones and they have to dig him up.

Michael Jackson can be buried in any vessel as long as HE paid for it. If the LAPD has a 1.5 million dollar bill for unpaid security expenses incurred for the Michael Jackson memorial.

Bill the Jackson family and AEG Entertainment/ STAPLES for the expense.

The Muslims will not gone with coffin in his
final resting place

Im quite surprised they didnt put sequins on it

the coffin is bit insane, but who really cares about the "Jacko"... i mean the fans out there... yes, but the non-fans, it's like who cares about him LOL

i love michal jackson! <3

thats awesome 14 kt

I think it should have been a homemade amish built one.

if his family gave that coffin then he mustve wanted it.