suomynona said:

The will is likely under the moniker -- which is why they can't find it.

That was only ever a stage moniker, never a legal name - all his legal documents and contracts etc even during the 93-00 period will still be under PRN. Unless someone knows different.

Why are people surprised that a man who despised contracts and who thought that people that believed in god sincerely lived to get very old (apparently according to accounts of ages in the book of genesis) would make a will?

Not only would that be a CON-tract, that he despised, but he didn't need it for a long, as he believed.

Anyway, to me it makes perfect sense that he never made a will. He wanted to avoid the difficult topic of death (he always seemed to avoid difficult topics and people that didn't agree with him) and not create official documents. The everlasting now and all...

mediumdry said:

Where do people come up with this stuff? Every other song he recorded included a reference to death and the afterlife.
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I wonder if his ex-wives have been consulted about their knowledge of a will ever existing...

EnDoRpHn said:

mediumdry said:

Anyway, to me it makes perfect sense that he never made a will. He wanted to avoid the difficult topic of death (he always seemed to avoid difficult topics and people that didn't agree with him) and not create official documents. The everlasting now and all...

Where do people come up with this stuff? Every other song he recorded included a reference to death and the afterlife.

There's a big difference between death in the abstract and talking about your own death. Prince couldn't even deal with ageing. He didn't celebrate birthdays (or more appropriately, anniversaries) because it would make him age. By not counting time he stayed looking young. As to his own death, he referred only to it to say that he would go to heaven, to god. (never having the humility to express doubt as to wether he would get into heaven or the insight that there is no heaven after death) The idea that maybe he'd have to arrange some things for the people he would leave behind I've never seen addressed. The only thing I have heard from him was that "somebody" would release music from the vault. And he changed his mind about that on occasion.

The man created his own reality that only had a partial overlap with most of ours.

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