Havana Cuba. – On April 5, 1994, after long years struggling with depression and addictions, the legendary Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain shot himself in his Seattle residence, USA. Six days earlier, she had escaped from the Exodus Recovery Center after scaling a six-foot wall.
The tormented young musician was exhausted. Nirvana had come to an end as a band, largely due to the erratic behavior and frequent relapses of their vocalist. Several sources say that, in the days before his death, Kurt Cobain ingested high doses of heroin and painkillers. On April 2, he went to a gun store, where he bought shotgun shells, and, sometime during the next 48 hours, he went to the movies to see the movie. The pianist.
His wife, Courtney Love, had reported him missing, further assuring that he had suicidal intentions. The singer refrained from contacting family or friends. He wandered alone until on the morning of April 5 he went up to the greenhouse above his garage, injected himself with a triple dose of heroin and shot himself in the head with a shotgun.
His body was found three days later by an employee who had come to install an electrical security system. There were no visible signs of trauma at the scene, only the gun rested on Cobain’s chest, and a suicide note peeked out of a vase of flowers, where the singer asked his wife to take care of their young daughter, Frances Bean, who I would be much better off without him.
After the musician’s death, all kinds of conspiracy theories arose, including one in which Courtney Love would have paid $50,000 to a subject to murder her partner. There was never any evidence of an alleged homicide, but in May 2021 the FBI declassified Cobain’s file, which revealed that his fingerprints had not been found on the gun, and that the final words of the suicide note appeared to have been written by someone else.
To this day, suspicions of murder still point to Courtney Love, but that theory is as inconsistent as the singer’s suicide, in the opinion of many fans of the band.
Suicide or homicide, the physical disappearance of the front man of Nirvana shocked the world of rock and was a blow to the grunge. Kurt Cobain died at the age of 27, thus entering the creepy “27 Club”, where celebrities such as Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix and Janis Joplin were already waiting for him, and to which the British Amy would join years later. Winehouse.
