Heroin addicts have increasingly high drug tolerances. “If Kurt had taken a lethal heroin overdose he would not be able to pull the trigger.” Some Common Kurt Cobain Murder Arguments & Rebuttals:Ĩ.

(Source: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, By Charles R. Like a funeral.”įive of the six songs cover songs during Nirvana’s MTV ‘Unplugged’ performance have lyrics that reference death. Cobain’s request prompted the show’s producer to ask him, “You mean like a funeral?”, to which the singer replied, “Exactly. To me this was Kurt’s planned epitaph 5 months before his death:Ĭobain suggested that the stage be decorated with stargazer lilies, black candles, and a crystal chandelier. Lyrics (the song is loaded with a veiled suicide references):ħ.

Throw me in the fire and I won’t throw a fit.” Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume. “I lie in the soil and fertilize mushrooms. Song: “I Hate Myself and Want To Die” – the name of a Nirvana song, the original title for the album “In Utero”, and Kurt shocked his bandmates by showing up to a show wearing a custom made T-Shirt with this phrase on it. Kurt Cobain’s lyrics were full of direct and veiled references to suicide: Kurt wrote in his posthumously published 2002 book Journals (also depicted a scene in the film 2015 film Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) that he once tried to commit suicide as a teen by laying on train tracks only to have the train come down the wrong tracks next to him.Ħ. Kurt reportedly told eighth grade friend John Fields while walking home from school, “I’m going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory … I want to be rich and famous and kill myself like Jimi Hendrix.” At the time Kurt believed Hendrix’ death was a suicide. Although at the time the film and photos may have been meant to be comical or irreverent, they are hauntingly eerie in retrospect.Ĥ. Kurt was photographed several times pointing guns at his head and also into his mouth in the same manner as his suicide. Kurt made a Super-8 film as a teenager which depicts him violently cutting and stabbing himself with a knife.

Kurt allegedly told an eighth grade friend, Rod Marsh, that he had “suicide genes” citing Burle’s and other relatives suicides. Kurt’s great-uncles, brothers Burle and Kenneth Cobain, both died by suicide by self-inflicted gunshots to the head with Burle also shooting himself in the stomach in 19 respectively. None of Kurt’s bandmates or close relatives, including his daughter and mother, believe that he was murdered.Ģ. Today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 55th birthday.ġ. This article was written by Mike Ratherson and originally was published on Alternative Nation in April 2014.

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