Kurt Kobain
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Many people have their own theories about the 5th of April is 1994, for those of you who dont, know that this is the day Kurt Kobains body was found in the garage of his home. Some critics have come to the conclusion that Kurt had tried to make himself a legend by killing himself. But such ideas seem to overshadow the tragedy
of the death of one the most popular and influential musicians of the 1990s. (Melody Makers, web2.epnet.com 12/08/2001)
There is no question of Kurt Cobains death. Many people think he was murdered, many people think it is pretty impossible to shot yourself in the head with a shotgun, but truly it isnt. Kurt Cobain was found on the floor of his garage, when he was found he had been dead for some time from a single “self administered shotgun wound to the head.” Around him on the floor were some personal possessions and a had written suicide note which read “I have it good, very good, and Im grateful, but since the age of seven Ive become hateful towards all humans in general” (Iain Shedden, “Smells Like a Dead Man”).
Cobain had grown up in a small town named Aberdeen. Washington. His childhood was disrupted by the divorce of his parents when he was eight. The success of Nirvana gave Kurt the authority to be the “spokesman” of his generation. Nirvanas music gave way to hundreds of other underground bands, but with this success came the medias attention and the almost total loss of privacy that came with it (Kurt Kobains Obituary).
Kurt had secretly suffered from an illness that caused severe stomach pains for more that seven years, which caused him to contemplate suicide almost everyday. This constant abdominal pain led to deep “melancholic depression verging of schizophrenia, and frequent bouts of narcolepsy” (Kurt Kobains Obituary). Doctors were of no help to him, so he found escape in heroin. For years he fought his addiction, but compared to the severe stomach pains, heroin was unimportant (Kurt Kobains Obituary).
Kurt Cobains wife, Courtney Love, and their daughter, Frances, brought some real happiness into his life. But the medias constant prodding and increasingly frequent period of depression finally pushed him over the edge. In the end, death was the only thing that he saw that could relieve