One side of the story claims he was dead for hours, with the paramedics reporting "Lividity":

See this excerpt from a radaronline article posted here:

http://www.radaronline.com/category/tag……….s/lividity#

"A close friend of Jackson', Dr. Steven Hoefflin, spoke to the paper with the permission of Michael's mother to confirm the forms findings.

"He had no pulse and was not breathing. They gave him an electro-cardiogram but he was flatlined. They say he even had lividity, which meant the blood had sunk to the back, indicating his heart had stopped a couple of hours earlier,"Hoefflin said."



This directly contradicts Randy Phillips of AEG saying that Michael was on life support. Note that doctors at UCLA would not put a corpse who was dead for hours on life support.

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/10/16/michael-jacksons-collaborators-share-new-details-of-pop-stars-f……….inal-days/

"The nurse said, ‘He’s on life support.’ I said, ‘What exactly does that mean?’ She told us he was brain dead but still breathing."Phillips says he and Jackson’s manager Frank DiLeo informed Jackson’s children of their father’s death (wait..where was Katherine…did she authorize MJ being taken off life support??). "It was the hardest thing I’ve ever lived through. I’ll never forget the look of fear in their faces."

As doctors struggled in vain to save the singer, his collaborators on the concerts were waiting anxiously at L.A.’s Staples Center and trying to sort rumor from fact.



So the above proves that someone is lying about what happened that day. But why? In all death cases, whether a person is alive or dead upon arrival at the hospital should be a basic determination. Why is it so hard in this case to find out for sure if Michael was dead for hours, or alive, when they reached the hospital? Of course…no one official from the hospital has spoken to clear this up…