When I was a teen oohhh so long ago, I used to love Kurt Cobain….you are missed. R.I.P
On April 8, 1994, Cobain was discovered in the spare room above the garage (referred to as “the greenhouse”) at his Lake Washington house by Veca Electric employee Gary Smith. Smith arrived at the house in the morning to install security lighting and saw Cobain lying inside. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain’s ear, Smith reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that the body was a mannequin then thought it was Cobain asleep. Smith found what he thought might be a suicide note with a pen stuck through it beneath an overturned flowerpot. A shotgun, purchased for Cobain by Dylan Carlson, was found resting on Cobain’s chest. He had been listening to R.E.M.‘s Automatic for the People before taking his own life[1]. Cobain’s death certificate stated that his death was a result of a “contact perforating shotgun wound to the head,” and an overdose and concluded his death a suicide. The report estimated Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994.
