I believe people take death of people they don't know very litely..he was a human being..a very talented human being...if someone cracked jokes about your mother or father or someone you loved so soon after their demise you would be up and arms...Although Michael Jackson was "just" a singer and entertainer no other person on this planet has transcended gender, color or age line as he did...I grew up on Michael and I'm 32, my mother loved Michael and all his music and she is 60...and I have a 5yr old son and one of his favorite songs is beat it...and we all seen footage of his old stadium shows where white, black, asian, and many other ethnicities are crying, screaming, and passing out just off the shear fact of being in the same place with him...the man definitely had his tribulations in his adult life but don't take away the fact that he was a gentle soul that moved millions of people...Don't turn his death into a joke...R.I.P. MJ