Mind you, the chance to dump on the spirit of Jacko is one not to be missed.

Maybe if times get hard, and the civil list gets trimmed back, then she could be onto a money making scheme here. Turnstile on the door of the loo at buck House…?

Unlike this, of course, from that most august of research publications, The Super Soaraway Sun:-

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2536406/Ghost-of-Jacko-snapped-on-car.html

As for Jackson’s brain, for my part, I believe it to be the only part worth considering. He stopped being a black man a long time ago. Who knows the demons that caused such self-mutiliation. But the body has been buried in a glowing golden probe. The brain, though . . . repository of the soul? Is there a soul? Can the musical genius be identified in some part of the brain? Can the whackness be identified in some other part? Are these parts conjoined?

What do you want to bet that ten years from now some story will be leaked about someone taking some of Jackson’s brain tissue for cloning?

And about the brain bit… I don’t know. Considering a past case in the Netherlands though, I’d say that the family will hold a small, private ceremony to bury the brain later on and give the case the emotional closure it deserves.

The Dutch case was interesting, actually, and rather relevant in the context you mention, Bruce. A young girl was murdered some years ago and her body was held for forensics for a longer time than expected due to stupid administrative errors and the police being a bunch of lazy douchebags. Finally, the body was given to the family and buried. However, the case is still running because police, due to said administrative errors etc have been unable to find the murderer. Some people were arrested, charged etc, but all were released due to things like having an actual alibi, different DNA etc. When the family demanded to have all files on the case opened so they could see at what point the police had started making these huge mistakes, they discovered not only that things had gone wrong as soon as the investigation started, but also that the brain and organs from the body were actually missing: the police had never put them back in, and they were still in spirits as part of the evidence. The organs that were inside the body, were not those of their daughter! They have demanded the original organs back, which had been stored as evidence, and got these returned to them. However, even now they are still afraid that these organs might actually those of someone else.

So the family is furious, and for good reasons: if the police force hadn’t spend so much time dicking around, they probably could have found the murderer very easily. The failure to even know which organs belonged to whom, was an illustration how poorly things had been organized: all evidence had probably been contaminated and was absolutely worthless. But in addition, the family felt terrible about having buried some remains with the remains of their daughter, which as now turns out weren’t the daughter’s!

interesting questions you ask. of course, i don’t have any answers.