By Ruth Manuel-Logan on Sep 15th 2010 4:14PM
Since
Michael Jackson was
laid to rest last year, countless fans have been leaving gifts in his memory at the
Forest Lawn Cemetery. People gather every day outside the California cemetery to leave mementos for the pop icon, whose career spanned nearly five decades.
The burial site's designated area for Jackson's mementos is so overrun with stuff that has accumulated, that the administrators have put in place a schedule, whereas the pop icon's gifts will be discarded after a certain time. As far as flowers for Jackson are concerned, if you want to leave them, you can, but it will cost you. Not only will you have to buy them at the cemetery's flower shop but a charge of $3 will be added to have them delivered to his mausoleum.
The fee to send a floral arrangement holds true for everyone buried at Forest Lawn according to their spokesperson. In Jackson's case, the arrangement will be taken inside his mausoleum; fans still aren't allowed to enter the sanctuary.
From now on, if you want to leave anything besides flowers (pictures, candles, cards, figurines) for Jackson, you can rest assured that they will get dumped, so you might want to think twice! Once the space inside the mausoleum runs out and flowers can no longer be left, they will get placed outside of the structure, then dumped.
Talk about trying to make a buck!
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By: poetrysez on 9/15/2010 5:11PM
May you continue to rest in peace, Mike :)
I don’t agree with the $3 charge but I do agree with the flowers being bought inside the sanctuary and when the sanctuary is full of flowers then they will start putting flowers outside of the sanctuary. I don’t know how the Jackson family feels about this but I do know that only family and friends leave keepsakes other than flowers when someone passes on. I can just imagine the type of stuff people probably leave in remembrance of Michael Jackson.
Mama Jackson probably agrees with the cemetery but what they should do is designate an area at the ranch and store all of the non perishable stuff there-leave the flowers at the cemetery. Michael loved that ranch and it’s only fitting that there’s a place set aside for a memorial.
The cemetery wasn’t realistic when they didn’t stipulate what could and couldn’t be left by fans ( nor was the Jackson clan). Or did they stipulate on some sort of plat and fans still did what they wanted to do?
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By: You Know Who on 9/17/2010 3:28PM
This is not a news story, who in hell is going to clean -up after you for free, are you retarded or just dam stupid. There is no free lunch, nor toilet,air you breath, or water you drink.If you do not like America go back where you came from, better yet leave California, you will not be missed,I remember when blacks could not go in Forrest Lawn.Nobody works for free but fools.Idiots!!!
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