RIP Prince

I am well aware of that. I even made a will once using LegalZoom. And then didn't get around to finding witnesses and notaries and such to make it official. :shuffle: And now it's all out of date anyway.

People put off making wills because they don't want to think about dying and/or because there are more pressing matters going on right now. I'd be surprised if Prince didn't have one, but I'm not surprised that lots of regular people don't have them.
You're right about that. I guess the reason I think about it more now is because of nearly dying. It may not have been my time 5 years ago. However, it made me realize just how precious life really is and that we're not guaranteed tomorrow. I was supposed to die, but didn't - at least not yet. Now that I know, I take each day as it comes. That is why I realized that time is too precious to waist and not put off doing what you need to do ... therefore making a will.

No, I don't wish to die at all. I just know how close I came to dying, and that was enough to make me realize that I needed to take care of business before it was too late.

There have been 6 times in my life now that I should have died - literally. Maybe I'm like a cat with nine lives and only have 3 left. Either that or I have a guardian angel watching over me. I've just learned that I don't need to put off until tomorrow what I should do today because I may not be here tomorrow. :)
 
I don't take it as a bad sign that his sister filed papers 7 days after Prince passed away. There must be an enormous number of employees and vendors who need to get paid.

She seems to be going about things the right way. She asked for her brother's bank to oversee day to day matters and she's asking that the estate be split evenly amongst herself (the only full sibling) and the other half-siblings, who are treated as full siblings under MN law.
 
Maybe he didn't care about his earthly posessions, but I would think that given his perfectionist tendencies he would have at least wanted to control the disposition of the songs in his vault.

He reportedly was afraid of signing anything and nobody convinced him to do a will. He apparently hopped from lawyer to lawyer, and they weren't lawyers specializing in music rights. So, his finances, including the music and music rights, could be a big mess.
 
I don't take it as a bad sign that his sister filed papers 7 days after Prince passed away. There must be an enormous number of employees and vendors who need to get paid.

One of the things that drove me crazy about dealing with my parents' estates was that everyone who needed to get things done kept saying "There's no rush on this."

Well, maybe not to Probate Lawyer and Banks and assorted others, but the people who wanted to be paid sure had a different idea, and I wanted to move things along myself, as I like to have things settled. If I had to deal with an estate like Prince's, I would have filed within days, too, because you know it's going to take a lot of time to get everything done.
 
Also, if there is no will appointing an executor, then court orders would be needed to arrange for things like burial. My mom was on vacation in Japan when she passed away; while all her property was in a trust, the executor was the one with authority to insure that the body was brought home so she could be buried with my dad.
 
But Prince has been cremated.
It is possible to let funeral/burial/cremation requests but have no will
 
So sad, this whole thing. Especially since it seems that he was likely in so much pain he was over-medicating or became addicted to opioids as the reason for his death. And his religion was a barrier to getting replacements which I have heard is like a new lease on life.
 
So sad, this whole thing. Especially since it seems that he was likely in so much pain he was over-medicating or became addicted to opioids as the reason for his death. And his religion was a barrier to getting replacements which I have heard is like a new lease on life.

There's a lot of rumours, innuendo and misinformation floating around. Who knows whether we'll ever have all the answers (and maybe it's none of our business). But we can discard the "religion being a barrier for getting hip replacements" statements in the Daily Fail and other newspapers. See posts #104, #106, #107.
 
There's a lot of rumours, innuendo and misinformation floating around. Who knows whether we'll ever have all the answers (and maybe it's none of our business). But we can discard the "religion being a barrier for getting hip replacements" statements in the Daily Fail and other newspapers. See posts #104, #106, #107.

I agree that we may most likely never will have all the answers. And, also, it's really none of our business. But, as far as discarding "religion being a barrier for getting hip replacements," I'm not entirely convinced of that. Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses certainly are open to most medical procedures (including replacements) .. but I was surprised to read that, not only are they against blood transfusions from another person but also do not condone the storing of one's own blood for possible future transfusions. Since transfusions are often (not always) needed following hip replacement surgery, this could have been a real deterrent in Prince's decision re replacement surgery.

Whatever happened, it's a tragedy and I will miss him so very much. May he RIP in for all eternity.
 
I agree that we may most likely never will have all the answers. And, also, it's really none of our business. But, as far as discarding "religion being a barrier for getting hip replacements," I'm not entirely convinced of that. Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses certainly are open to most medical procedures (including replacements) .. but I was surprised to read that, not only are they against blood transfusions from another person but also do not condone the storing of one's own blood for possible future transfusions. Since transfusions are often (not always) needed following hip replacement surgery, this could have been a real deterrent in Prince's decision re replacement surgery.

Multiple sources say that Prince DID have hip replacement surgery a few years ago; some still say he did not and some say he had hip surgery but do not specify what kind it was. As was posted before, many Jehovah's Witnesses have hip replacements done without blood transfusions; this does not mean that Prince did, because there can be underlying medical conditions (like anemia or other blood problems) that prohibit bloodless surgery.

So maybe religion was a factor and maybe it wasn't; maybe he had hip replacements and maybe he didn't. But the average Witness who refuses blood transfusions (and there are many caveats on that refusal that people seem to be unaware of and aren't worth going into when it isn't clear that it was a factor) can still have hip replacement surgery.

But Prince has been cremated.
It is possible to let funeral/burial/cremation requests but have no will

Yes, that wasn't a factor for my parents at all. But that may be one of those things that depends on your state.

We didn't even open an estate when my dad died, as it wasn't necessary; all we had to do was file a few papers to have everything officially put in my mom's name.
 
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I've always wondered about his song Raspberry Beret. It's pretty specific and the only other reference to a raspberry beret I know is in Pushkin's verse novel Evgeni Onegin. Tatiana wears a raspberry beret at the end of the novel (crimson beret in some translations is not quite correct.) "Кто там в малиновом берете" @Tinami Amori @dinakt

Any ideas? Nothing jumped out at first blush on Google.
 
So after me posting upthread that Frank Zappa, who knew he was going to die, set up a family trust to protect his wife, children and musical legacy - I learn that since the wife died, his children aren't speaking to each other and have started launching lawsuits against each other.

Sigh.
 
I've always wondered about his song Raspberry Beret. It's pretty specific and the only other reference to a raspberry beret I know is in Pushkin's verse novel Evgeni Onegin. Tatiana wears a raspberry beret at the end of the novel (crimson beret in some translations is not quite correct.) "Кто там в малиновом берете" @Tinami Amori @dinakt

Any ideas? Nothing jumped out at first blush on Google.

I have heard that it was just another metaphor for "vagina." I guess it rhymed with more than "taco." :watch:
 
Maybe it just fit. That happens a lot in the poetry and songwriting--the word is determined by the rhythm more than anything else.
 
I've always wondered about his song Raspberry Beret. It's pretty specific and the only other reference to a raspberry beret I know is in Pushkin's verse novel Evgeni Onegin. Tatiana wears a raspberry beret at the end of the novel (crimson beret in some translations is not quite correct.) "Кто там в малиновом берете" @Tinami Amori @dinakt

Any ideas? Nothing jumped out at first blush on Google.

Nothing to do with Pushkin. Just a continuation of "psychedelic" colors used (as part of a trend) in titles of "top hit songs". 1983 - "Little Red Corvette", 1985 - "Raspberry Beret", they even sound the similar at least in part, and both were in top 10. If it ain't broken - don't fix it..... :D
 
Wiery's explanation makes sense. However, it's not unheard of Western musicians being familiar with Russian lit and using it in their work. IIRC, Mick Jagger was inspired by Bulgakov's Master and Margarita when he wrote Sympathy For The Devil.
 

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