Now that it's confirmed that Prince's death is caused by an OD of Opioid painkillers, MSM describe this as 'The Cause'

But is that correct?
Partially.

In my job I do a lot of failure investigations. One thing we do are establising so called CAP's Corrective Action Plans. To draft such plan we need to doo a process analysis and root cause analysis. Without a decent definition of the root cause, I cannot prevent a failure from happening again. A simple way to get to the root cause is a so called '5 why' analysis in which you ask "why?" often enough until you get to the end where there's no decent answer possible anymore. At that point you have reached the root cause. This point is often reached at the 5th time asking "Why?"

If you now apply such Root Cause Analysis to Prince's death, I would come up with these results:

1) Why did he die of an OD?
Because he took painkillers (without supervision, but I'm not going down that brach, but you could)

2)Why did he take painkillers? -> Because he was in pain
3)Why was he in pain? -> becasuse he didn't have hip replacement

Here you can (and have to) split again
4a) Why didn't he have hip replacement? -> because his beliefs (JW doctrine) prohibited surgery with blood transfusion.

4b) Why was a hip replacement needed? -> his hips were worn out.
5) Why were his hips worn out? ->Because of his podium-acrobatics on high heels during concerts
Here you could ash why was he wearing high heels. The answer to that would be the real root cause. (Compensation for beïng short,possibly due to an inferiority complex about his height)

Direct Cause: The Opioid O.D. (now confirmed)
Decisive cause: JW Doctrine prohibiting surgery with blood transfusion.
Root Cause: Worn out hips
Catalyst or Amplifier: a possible inferiority complex about his height.

If you look at it rationally, the 'failure''s root cause was known (worn out hips).
But a corrective action would have been surgery.
This however was prevented due to his beliefs (IMHO brainwashing) in the JW doctrine.

That is the decisive cause -> the JW Doctrine.

Post here http://prince.org/msg/7/427047