The moment Prince's ashes were carried out beneath a jacket to a secret resting place following...

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The moment Prince's ashes were carried out beneath a jacket to a secret resting place following simple $1,600 cremation service - as it's revealed he stayed awake for SIX DAYS before his death. This is the moment Prince's ashes were carried to a car and taken to their final resting place after the legendary musician was secretly cremated on Friday in a 'no fuss' funeral as per his wishes. The star was found dead at his Minnesota home on Thursday, and his family quickly moved to carry out the simple funeral he demanded in the event of his death. As Prince’s family gathered at his home this week, his brother-in-law revealed that the music icon had been awake for ‘154 hours straight’, or six-and-a-half days. While fans flocked to his Paisley Park home and studio in Chanhassen, the star's body had been released to his family at around 1pm on Friday after a four-hour autopsy was completed at the Minnesota medical examiner's office. The body arrived at the First Memorial Western Chapel by 2pm where just his sister Tyka, her son Prez and another family member were in attendance to say a final goodbye. The modest service, which began an hour later, cost just $1,645 according to the price list, the Telegraph reported. Prince's family remained inside for four hours until the service ended and they were presented with the star's ashes And these pictures, obtained by the Sunday Mirror, show the moment a casket containing the Prince's ashes were carried out to a car under the cover of a black jacket and taken to his final resting place. Maurice Phillips, who is married to Tyka Nelson, Prince’s sister, told the Mirror that Prince had not slept in six-and-a-half days before he was found dead at his home. 'I was with him just last weekend,’ Phillips said. 'He worked 154 hours straight. He was a good brother-in-law.' Prince’s insomnia clashes with reports that he was taking high levels of Percocet, but in some cases, users of the drug have said it keeps them awake. Because Prince is a Jehovah's Witness he had to have funeral services carried out within a week of his death. And because of his faith, the singer made it clear to his family that he wanted to 'quiet service' and to 'die with dignity,' a family friend told the Mirror. 'He had very precise ideas about how he wanted his death to be handled and that didn't involve a huge funeral but a quiet service. 'He wanted it to be kept to the minimum of fuss. Prince was such figure you don't need a funeral to remember him by. He wanted to simply disappear with no fuss, no drama, no fanfare. It was just his style.' The friend compared Prince's quiet ceremony to the pomp of Michael Jackson's funeral that was streamed live worldwide. On Saturday, Graham stood at a gate of Paisley Park Studios and thanked some of the hundreds of fans gathered on the lawn outside to show their admiration of Prince, a seven-time Grammy winner whose music blended rock, jazz, funk, R&B;, and disco. 'Prince made us all better musicians and spiritually is the most important thing, but as musician he pushed us and he made us better and we listened deeply,' Graham told the fans. A sea of purple marked the occasion, with many guests opting to wear the star's favorite color as they celebrated his life. Close friends such as Damaris Lewis, his former lover Sheila E, band member Hannah Welton and her husband Josh Welton and others were spotted entering the property around 2 pm. Prince had always claimed that he was drug-free, making the news of his alleged overdose all the more shocking. He had previously revealed that he was epileptic and had suffered seizures as a child. He was bullied at school over his condition which he said he dealt with by developing his iconic larger-than-life personality. The singer, a devout Jehovah's Witness, later told his mother he had been cured by an angel. While Prince never made clear if he was still struggling to live with epilepsy, his song The Sacrifice of Victor tells the story of a boy who was 'epileptic 'til the age of seven'. Meanwhile, Aretha Franklin made the bizarre suggestion that Prince may have contracted the Zika virus.