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Originally Posted by Mydriasis
I believe he may have died, but I could see just cause for him wanting to fake his own death. I mean shit, being strung out on drugs for years on end, being rich enough to retire at such an early age. Though I truly believe he died.
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Don't forget that he had been convicted to at least six months prison/hard labor - his going to Paris actually broke the terms of his appeal against the conviction as it would have been absconding.
It seems the establishment were determined to put in him jail.
The fact that no one [who knew him] but Pamela Courson saw his body in the coffin is very suspicious [as well as the fact that the two French doctors who saw 'the body' gave completely different accounts].
The only real 'evidence' given of his death is that Pam was so
genuinely grief stricken when she returned to the USA [and died of a drugs overdose in 1974].
However, Jim was smart enough to know that to
convincingly fake his own death he would have to cut himself off
completely from everybody in his previous life - including Pam.
So Pam would have grieved in any case.
Jim couldn't allow her to know where he was going [or even the details of the plot] as she would have likely to have blown his cover.
The Doors last album
LA Woman certainly gives many lyrical hints at his faked death [e.g. tracks like
Hyacinth House,
Changling].