Posted by Adam

Thursday July 2, 2009

Michael Jackson‘s older brother Jermaine wants the tragic superstar to be buried at Neverland.

In an interview broadcast Thursday on NBC’s Today show, Jermaine Jackson also said he wishes he had died instead of his younger brother.

Jackson, 50, passed away Thursday (June 25) after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles. It has been widely reported that an overdose of prescription is to blame for the superstar’s unexpected death.

“He went too soon. I don’t know how people are going to take this, but I wish it was me,” Jermaine said.

“I wanted to be there for him. I was there and he was sort of like molded. Things he couldn’t say, I would say them. During the trials, during everything …”

Jermaine said that when he rushed to UCLA Medical Center last Thursday, where the King of Pop was pronounced dead, “I wanted to see Michael, and I wanted to see my brother, and see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me, but I held myself together, because I know he’s very much alive.”

“His spirit is, and that was just a shell, but I kissed him on his forehead and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, ‘Michael, I’ll never leave you. You’ll never leave me.’”

Jackson said Neverland was Michael’s home. “He created this. Why wouldn’t he be here? I feel his presence.”

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