By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

Michael Jackson isn't even buried yet, but his after-death story keeps getting stranger.

Now AEG Live -- operator of KC's Sprint Center -- has released a minute-long video of a rehearsal from last week, as he prepared for an upcoming series of concerts in an alliance with AEG Live in London.

Given the interest interest in Jackson, AEG Live's decision isn't surprising.

But it's still a ghoulish decision, showing a soon-to-be-dead person at work.

The release of the video is possibly being used to gauge what kind of interest there is in seeing Jackson in his final days.

In fact, there's even talk that the rehearsals he was involved in might be spliced together to form a final "show" from Jackson, to be sold to TV stations.

The video does show that Jackson appeared to be in better health before he died than many people had been led to believe, with many reports painting him as being barely able to move, a thin replica of his former self.

Still, the posting of the video this soon after his death is gruesome, even if it is designed to satiate the public's interest in the King of Pop.