Booked tickets to see him in concert. I was finally in a place where I would have the time to be able to do that. I always felt he would be here. Sadly, we know the outcome .

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If I could "time travel", then I would ask P to go see a doctor with his pain problems....



Prince would probably be alive then today....

Ps I am no specialist in pain, but something just went out of control right?

I would go see the Atlanta concert and then call the Minnie emergency and have them get to PP (or at least try to get them to PP) prior to Prince passing.

Then all would still be right with the world.

I would have f'kin saved his life, for real, no matter how or what I have to do, they could throw me in jail afterwards just fine don't matter, I would be on a mission for all humanity here!

Everything happens for a reason - we don't know why he left us but he had to go.

All I would do differently and could do differently is not be at work at the time I found out. I would want to be alone with a candle and his music and glass of red and hear the world stop and a piece of me die the moment his heart stopped beating.

I have spoken of my Dad many times during my posts the last month. I was really close to my father and his death had an enormous impact on me. My father, in his last year, had multiple surgeries to repair various ailments and several weeks before he died he had one that could have gone 50/50 either way and we ended up on the good 50 side. He recovered slowly and then finally enough to go home. He could have and should have stayed at the hospital longer but he was adamant about being in familliar surrondings. He seemed to be doing okay, not great but okay for a couple of weeks and then one night he was eating some chicken and had a stroke. When he had the stroke we were told about two different kinds of suregeries he could have, both risky but one with more of a chance to restore some normal higher activity but more risky than the other. We chose that one and he made it through but overnight he had massive bleeding in his brain and that was it. I am sorry to be graphic but what this presents is a series of choices made, any of them that could be made differently but the end result was the loss of my father. Sometimes, no matter what choice you make you don't get the result you want. I go back to that time to this day and wonder but in the end, his health was really bad, he survived through several brutal surgeries and his body just gave out. Prince maybe could have and should have been helped by someone. Maybe he was being helped, maybe he would only allow so much help. Prince was a free spirit, I can't imagine it was easy for anyone in his circle to change his mind if he was set to do a certain thing. We don't know what happend so I won't speculate. I will say that even with Michael J. Fox's Delorean, we sadly may not have been able to save him.

Can I go back 3 months?

I was at the after party in Melbourne in february and I was 4 feet away from him for most of the night and he danced with us that night too and I wish I'd had the guts to try and get behind that rope so I could tell him to take care of himself.

I know there's next to no chance that I would have been allowed to speak to him but it kills me that I didn't try.

I always felt like I was inching closer over the years at after parties and I was sure I gonna try and talk to him next time but now there will never be a next time.

GottaLetitgo said:

username00 said:

What would you do/not do this time last month if you could time travel like in the Matrix movie?

Nothing. Prince moved about not as an automaton but as someone practicing agency
and the ability to choose, plot, and perform actions. I don't know if we should ever take
that away from someone, although, we could argue that substance abuse does cause the
section of the brain that makes effective/sound decisions less effective. Anyways, if his
demise is related to chronic pain caused by years of stage performances (I don't think

Prince receives enough recognition for his athletic abilities) and however he decided to

treat his pain, whether orthodoxical or not, his death, while tragic, may help save lives

for other people who are living with substance abuse issues. In other words, I would do

nothing to stop Prince from living his life as he saw fit; although I would hope he would

make better decisions about how to treat his ailments and who he allowed in his camp.
Additionally, his death, if related to substance abuse (I think it is) reveals that addiction

is indiscriminatory in nature and maybe someone says: "Holy Fuck. Prince was rich, suc-

cessful, talented, worshipped; if he succombed to substance abuse, then it can come for
me too. Maybe I do need to get help."

There's something that doesn't sit right with me when we talk about going back into the
past in the hopes of affecting change in our present. The ability to deal with your past
and face the consequences of your decision making is a hallmark of a healthy adulthood.

strawberrybubblegum said:

Everything happens for a reason - we don't know why he left us but he had to go.

All I would do differently and could do differently is not be at work at the time I found out. I would want to be alone with a candle and his music and glass of red and hear the world stop and a piece of me die the moment his heart stopped beating.

Yes, this is beautiful.

morningsong said:

GottaLetitgo said:

I have spoken of my Dad many times during my posts the last month. I was really close to my father and his death had an enormous impact on me. My father, in his last year, had multiple surgeries to repair various ailments and several weeks before he died he had one that could have gone 50/50 either way and we ended up on the good 50 side. He recovered slowly and then finally enough to go home. He could have and should have stayed at the hospital longer but he was adamant about being in familliar surrondings. He seemed to be doing okay, not great but okay for a couple of weeks and then one night he was eating some chicken and had a stroke. When he had the stroke we were told about two different kinds of suregeries he could have, both risky but one with more of a chance to restore some normal higher activity but more risky than the other. We chose that one and he made it through but overnight he had massive bleeding in his brain and that was it. I am sorry to be graphic but what this presents is a series of choices made, any of them that could be made differently but the end result was the loss of my father. Sometimes, no matter what choice you make you don't get the result you want. I go back to that time to this day and wonder but in the end, his health was really bad, he survived through several brutal surgeries and his body just gave out. Prince maybe could have and should have been helped by someone. Maybe he was being helped, maybe he would only allow so much help. Prince was a free spirit, I can't imagine it was easy for anyone in his circle to change his mind if he was set to do a certain thing. We don't know what happend so I won't speculate. I will say that even with Michael J. Fox's Delorean, we sadly may not have been able to save him.

But I sure would love to have given it a good old-fashioned college try. There would have been that.

Of course. Me too. It just seems like there were points there with Prince that if one right thing had been done or another, what happened wouldn't have happened. Painful to think about.

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I'd go back and buy the one Prince release I don't own and buy it for thirty-five bucks. The "One Night Alone...Live" set is now being sold for $400!

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Um, I'm not quite sure you understand The Matrix, which means you might still be very much plugged into it.

I would to Paisley Park and cause a scene that would increase security and draw more attention to Prince. Maybe he would have had someone there in that elevator due to te crazy fan outside trying to climb the fence screaming and crying for him to hold on and wait for the doc.

strawberrybubblegum said:

FUNKYNESS said:

BombFunk said:

I would have f'kin saved his life, for real, no matter how or what I have to do, they could throw me in jail afterwards just fine don't matter, I would be on a mission for all humanity here!

Exactly!

purplestainedtears said:

Booked tickets to see him in concert. I was finally in a place where I would have the time to be able to do that. I always felt he would be here. Sadly, we know the outcome .

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I'm with U. I could have DRIVEN to Atlanta shows. And then I found out around the 25th a Miami show was going to be announced...

Lizzypoo said:

Exactly one month?

It would be April 23rd, so I couldn't do anything. But if it were April 20th? I'd break into Paisley Park and chill until I see him get into the elevator, then follow him and act real casual. Like I'm supposed to be there. If he calls the cops or lets me stay in there with him, I can be there the moment he collapses. Prince's life is saved and hopefully he'd appreciate that and not press charges or put a restraining order on me.

Realistically, I could imagine spending anything to have gone front row to that last concert.

But like a scfi novel reality, I would be calling everyone that knows and worked for him and said, "do not let him be... intervene. NOW." I'm sure this would have to be before that night.

You could drive your car through a wall to divert attention and bring people in. Whatever it takes.

Wear a condom.

purplestainedtears said:

Booked tickets to see him in concert. I was finally in a place where I would have the time to be able to do that. I always felt he would be here. Sadly, we know the outcome .

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Yes this Piano and Microphone tour was going to be perfect for me. I had the time and money to see several shows and just so frustrating that it won't happen and neither will any more P shows.

I would go to the Walgreens and tell him that he needs to go straight to the emergency room because he is not well and will be dead before sunrise if he does not. I will tell him that I know about the Percocet because maybe he will wonder how I know about that and take me seriously.