Because everybody is talking about it

Just a quick thought on Michael Jackson's funeral. I find it simply odd, how people are so passionately mourning somebody who gave kids wine and taught them to masturbate. If we must employ the old and rubbed down cliché of the artist being separate from his art, then can we just let the pervert with an unfortunately disturbed mind-set rest in peace, and celebrate his music that lives on forever? Cheers.