Argumentative Essay

With the mysterious death of Michael Jackson, to be analyzed, there are three main conspiracies surrounding Jackson’s life. From being worked to death, staging his death, and perhaps knowing something he should not have known about a so-called ‘abusive workplace’ under Sony could be the answer to this mysterious death. 

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The first conspiracy theory suggests that Michael Jackson was worked to death. According to Jackson’s sister, Latoya Jackson, “I believe that Dr. Tohme Tohme, Jackson’s business advisor, and his colleagues worked the poor singer to death,” Jackson worked his entire life, and Latoya believes that Jackson’s body just gave out, and could not take the pressure of work anymore (Shelton, Jacob, 1). However, this statement can not be proven because Jackson was already known to have some health problems. On December 6, 1995, one of Jackson’s bodyguards called EMS claiming that Jackson was not breathing during a rehearsal at the New York Beacon Theater; he suffered from dehydration from an infection he had prior to his rehearsal which caused him to have diarrhea and get dehydrated, this shows that Jackson had some health problems, and working on top of those health problems could cause the body to shut down, but Jackson was found dead with a large amount of Propofol in his system (Liefer and Mahomes, 1). This conspiracy theory is unlikely to be the cause of his death.

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The second theory proposes that Michael Jackson faked his death to escape money and fame, and to this day he is still alive. There are many Michael Jackson look-alikes on the internet, and people who cannot accept this singer's death believe the look-alikes are Jackson. Some theorists claim that “a video, which emerged after the coroner removed Jackson’s body from his L.A. home, shows the coroner’s van pulling into an empty parking lot and the ‘real’ Jackson leaving the van and disappearing into a building, never to be seen again”. Jackson’s body was also buried in cement to prevent anyone from digging up his corpse, which is why fans suspect they are hiding something (Lamoureux, 1). However, his post-mortem report confirmed that the body that was buried was Michael Jackson’s (Michael Jackson Death Anniversary, 1). This theory is extremely unlikely to be true.

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The last conspiracy theory is that Michael Jackson knew something he should not have known and as a result, he was murdered.  Michael Jackson was in London for a speech before he died, he said “Sony is killing music, and they are angry with me for leaving them, they are trying to get revenge on me by stealing my album. I am not supposed to tell you all this, please do not record what I am about to say. Mariah Carry, after divorcing Tommy Mottola, came to me crying and said that ‘this is an evil man’”. Many fans suppose that Jackson knew he was going to die after saying this speech and exposing Sony, many even believing Sony paid Conrad Murray to give Jackson Propofol intoxication (Speech against Sony). Michael Jackson’s son, Prince Jackson, testified that “When Jackson would get off the phone, he would cry, he would say ‘they are going to kill me, they are going to kill me’”(Duke, 1). This theory could be involved with his death. 

Conrad Murray faced years in prison for involuntary killing Michael Jackson with Propofol intoxication, however; the events leading up to this murder will remain unknown. Was he worked to death? Is he secretly still alive? Or did he get wrapped up in the wrong crowd and simply know too much? 

Michael Jackson has many conspiracy theories surrounding his demise from being worked to death, staging his death, and perhaps knowing something he should not have known about a so-called ‘abusive workplace’ under Sony which could be the answer to this mysterious death. With meticulous analysis, theories one and two have been ruled to be simply not true considering that Jackson was found dead with a large amount of Propofol in his system and his post-mortem report confirmed that the body that was buried was Michael Jackson. The solution is to remember the “King of Pop” forever and always for changing the music industry and wanting to make a change to the world. We may never know the truth behind his death, but we do know that if he lived, he would have made a difference to this world.