[Dunnymonster]

As I understand it the painkillers he was taking were for injuries he sustained to his back ( a broken vertebre) which had been giving him problems ever since. Although I also concede that the extensive surgery he had been under over the years perhaps did nothing to help either. Gotta say I really loved his music, although his passing could have been a blessing in disguise because in all honesty I believe that had he gone ahead and done all the scheduled concerts he was committed to doing, the fans would have left very disappointed. Micheal simply wasnt the same man he was 15 years earlier, to have expected the old Micheal Jackson to appear on stage as we remember him would have been impossible. At least this way he left the world the way he would have wanted the fans to remember him.