



Ĭobain did not want the gun purchased in his name because he thought the police might seize it for his own protection. Although conductor David Woodard had built a Dreamachine for Cobain, rumors that Cobain had been using the device heavily in the days leading up to his suicide were contradicted by later reports. It had been legally purchased by Carlson at Stan Baker's Gun Shop in Seattle. A Remington Model 11 20-gauge shotgun purchased for Cobain by his friend, musician Dylan Carlson, was found on Cobain's chest. He also found a suicide note with a pen stuck through it inside a flower pot. Smith initially thought Cobain was asleep until he saw blood coming out of Cobain's ear.
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Smith, who arrived that morning to install security lighting. On April 8, Cobain's body was discovered in the greenhouse above the garage at his Lake Washington Boulevard East house by VECA Electric employee Gary T. The final phrase before the closing, "It's better to burn out than to fade away," is a quote from Neil Young's " My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)".
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Cobain told the taxi driver he wanted to buy shells because he had been burglarized. On April 2, Cobain took a taxi to a Seattle gun shop, where he purchased and received a receipt for shotgun shells. On March 31, 1994, Cobain left the rehabilitation center he had checked into the day before, Exodus Recovery Center, by scaling a six-foot wall. He wanted to die, that's what he wanted to do." : 333 Death He wanted to get fucked up into oblivion . He wasn't connecting with anybody." : 332 Novoselic's offer to buy dinner for Cobain resulted in unintentionally driving him to score heroin: "His dealer was right there. He was just estranged from all of his relationships. In Charles Cross's biography Heavier Than Heaven, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic is quoted on seeing Cobain in the days before his intervention: "He was really quiet. Ĭobain said that his stomach pain had been so severe during Nirvana's 1991 European tour that he became suicidal, and that taking heroin was "the only thing that's saving me from shooting myself right now". But there was a definite suicidal urge, to be gobbling and gobbling and gobbling." Cobain's cousin Beverly, a nurse, said that the family had a history of suicide, and that Cobain had been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder.

However, Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, later said the overdose had been a suicide attempt: "He took 50 pills. His management agency, Gold Mountain Records, said that the overdose was accidental, and that he was suffering from influenza and fatigue. On March 4, 1994, Cobain was hospitalized in Rome following an overdose of painkillers. : 76 Cobain had two uncles who killed themselves using guns. : 66 He was also prone to alcoholism, suffered from depression, and regularly used drugs and inhalants. Throughout most of his life, Cobain suffered from chronic bronchitis and intense pain due to an undiagnosed chronic stomach condition. Kurt Cobain was the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band Nirvana, one of the most influential acts of the 1990s and one of the best-selling bands of all time.
