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Michael Jackson’s family is considering cremating the singer’s body so his remains can be scattered at his beloved Neverland Ranch.
Bureaucratic red tape prevented the star’s burial at the Californian estate.
But the family now hopes that they can still fulfill his wish to rest at his former home.
The family is expected to hold a private service tomorrow at the Los Angeles Forest Lawn Cemetery. But a groundskeeper told a US newspaper that he will not be buried then.
Instead, it is claimed, the plan is to temporarily inter the 50-year-old singer’s remains in the cemetery’s Lincoln Terrace section, where there is a huge, marble statue of the former US president Abraham Lincoln, and a mural of him with his arm around an African-American man.
Jackson biographer Stacy Brown said cremation might help the family grieve in private.
He said: “The family… [doesn't] want to wake up one morning and see on the front page a picture of Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket crying over their dad’s grave.”
A huge memorial service for Jackson, who died on June 25 in Los Angeles, will be held at the Staples Center in the city on Tuesday.
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