The Top 7 Funerals of the First Decade of the 21st Century-Your Funeral Guy

Here are the top 7 Funerals with video of the First Decade of The 21st Century 1) Pope John Paul II Funeral2) Ronald Reagan Funeral 3) Gerald Ford Funeral 4) Walter Cronkite Funeral 5)Ted Kennedy Funeral 6)Jack Kemp Funeral 7)Michael Jackson Funeral-four of these funerals occurred in the year 2009.

1. Pope John Paul II Funeral 2005

2. Ronald Wilson Reagan Funeral 2004 State Funeral

3. Gerald Ford Funeral 2007 State Funeral

4 Wallter Cronkite Funeral and Memorial Service 2009

5. Ted Kennedy Funeral 2009 Almost a State Funeral

6. The Jack Kemp Funeral 2009. Almost a State Funeral

7. The Michael Jackson Funeral | Memorial Service funeral for the next generation 2009

Michael Jackson Funeral|Biggest Event| Facebook History-YourFuneralGuy

The Michael Jackson Memorial Funeral service on July 7th 2009 was the biggest event ever on Facebook. It was a bigger  FACE BOOK event than the Barack  Obama Inauguration.

Television reports have the  event as the second largest FUNERAL EVENT on TV coming in  behind the Princess Di Funeral.

There is no way to measure totally the  viewing audience because live streams were everywhere on the web. The event was shown in movie theaters across the country as well.

Snippet from From Mashable.com

“Facebook just sent us the staggering stats coming out of their live Michael Jackson memorial stream, created in partnership with CNN. The numbers far exceed those from Obama’s inauguration, making this the biggest live Facebook event in history.

As of yesterday 800,000 people gave away the Michael Jackson(MJ) virtual glove gift. The Michael Jackson Funeral was the largest Facebook interactive event  ever.

Commentators and many folks thought the MJ  Funeral coverage was over the top and not appropriate. it was a bit much.

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Face Book has over 4million members and is one of the major online social networking Sites.

Michael Jackson’s Funeral | Memorial Booklet,program

A Michael Jackson’s Funeral  Memorial Booklet was being sold outside the Staples Center. The  program of

Michael Jackson, memorial booklet, program is blank there are pictures of Jackson but no real program schedule or order of service. Blank Program photo from istock photo.

sorts  with only pictures  was being passed out inside the Memorial Service.

There is a picture of the Commemorative Program at tmz.com.

A program in a funeral service is traditionally an order of service.

There was No Order of Service in the 7.07.09 Michael Jackson Memorial Service.

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Staples center pic from Flickr under the Creative Commons license from Christopher Chan’s photostream

Michael Jackson Funeral| Golden Casket goes to unannounced destination-yourfuneralguy

Michael Jackson's Golden Casket Not going back to Forest Lawn.

Michael Jackson’s golden casket and remains will go to from the Staples Center in LA to an unknown  California destination. The interdenominational service ended close to 4pm Eastern Time.

This according to TMZ.COM.

“Michael Jackson’s body will not be going back to Forest Lawn:..If a casket goes to Forest Lawn, it’s a decoy.”

The  historic memorial service for the “King of Pop” ended for the controversial KING OF POP  with “WE THE WORLD” and his daughter  tearfully calling him DADDY.

Where will the Body Of Michael Jackson and the golden casket end up?

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Revealed Now Video of Michael Jackson 2nd Funeral Procession-yourfuneralguy

There is now  video from the 2nd Michael Jackson(MJ) Funeral procession It is available at TMZ.com. The highways in Los Angeles  were cleared like never before. Video Link to  2nd Funeral Procession TMZ

It is video of the Michael Jackson Golden casket going down the highway.

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Going down the road in funeral procession

There is now video of the first Michael Jackson Funeral procession. It is available at TMZ.com. The motorcade including rolls royces, black buses and ambulance rolled into as this post was written. Video Link to TMZ

Even as the private  cemetery service at Forest Lawn is about to begin there are reports of Jackson Family quarreling.

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Tickets to Michael Jackson's Memorial Service will be issued in pairs.

1.6 million folks applied for tickets to the Michael Jackson Memorial Service. The total tickets available 17,500.Billions of people are expected to view the live broadcast of the Michael Jackson Memorial Service. Billions more will watch ithe streaming video on the internet. This event will be the world’s largest funeral.

From www.telegraph.co.uk/

“The lottery has now closed and applications were received at a rate of around 50,000 per hour, or more than 800 per minute. That equates to more than 13 applications per second.”

Many expect the memorial service to be a concert. this will be a funeral service. There will be reverence and spiritual symbols.

Just what spiritual symbols will be  be up front and center we do not know.  Michael Jackson was brought up a Jehovahs Witness but recently converted to Islam. Remember Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine has final say in the event.

It will be interesting to see what the worlds largest funeral service will be like.

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Staples Center Pic From Flickr under the Creative commons license  zerega’s photostream

Michael Jackson Funeral| Public Memorial Service 7.7.09-yourfuneralguy

Michael Jackson Public Funeral To be held in Staples Center in LA 9:00 AM July 7th 2009

The Michael Jackson Funeral Service may  be on 7.o7.o9. Reports say it will be at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Details are not formalized all though reports say the service will be next Tuesday.

Fans who made the pilgrimage to Neverland Ranch  have found this is  truly disappointing. In any funeral famous or unknown the wishes of the family are always respected.

According to USA Today.

“A free public memorial for Michael Jackson will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles….

Randy Phillips, CEO of AEG Live, which will produce the memorial…….

TMZ stated that Michael Jackson’s body was at Forest Lawn Mortuary in LA.

It ws announced on Thursday nite that  free 11,000 tickets would be made available to the public, and that large screens would be set up outside the Staples Center to accommodate crowd overflow. Quite possibly a private funeral service will be held ahead of the public one.

This is the latest information on the Michael Jackson, (MJ) Funeral, Funerals

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Reports now State the Michael Jackson funeral will be at the Staples Center in LA

Michael Jackson’s Funeral is to be in Los Angeles. It will not happen at the Neverland Ranch. Speculation abounds. A  good funeral director will let the family take as long as it wants to make funeral arrangements. However the public indecision of the Jackson Family has hurt fans.

It has been reported that trouble getting the  burial permits for  a Neverland MJ Burial, was the reason for no Neverland Michael Jackson Burial.

Discord in the Jackson Family was also a reason given for no Neverland Burial.

Snippet from  Fox News:

Sources close to the dicussions tell FOX News that a Jackson even will take place at 10 am at the downtown arena where the Los Angeles Lakers play.

Maybe the MJ private funeral  service will also be public MJ  Memorial Service.

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Staples center pic from Flickr under the Creative Commons license from Christopher Chan’s photostream

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The Michael Jackson Funeral will NOT be held at Neverland Ranch

The one thing that frustrates a funeral director when making funeral arrangements is a family that keeps changing its mind on the funeral. This appears to be what is happening in the Michael Jackson Funeral.

It is clear that some of the Michael Jackson Family wanted the public Funeral at The Neverland Ranch.

A Visitation will not occur there. A Memorial Service for the public will not happen at Neverland.

Although the family had somehow gotten the Santa Barbara Sheriff, CHP and other law enforcement officials to cooperate, the Funeral will not take place at the Neverland Ranch.

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From TMZ.com

– it won’t be until next week– it will not be at Neverland– it will be in the L.A. area, and the Staples Center…. hasn’t been decided.

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Neverland Ranch Pic from Flickr undr the Creative Commons license from  TunnelBug’s photostream

Jackson Art Work from flickr under the Creative Commons license  from

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