The mystery of the death of Kurt Cobain: who could have saved the leader of the legendary rock band "Nirvana"

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

23 years ago, on April 5, 1994, the famous rock musician, leader group "Nirvana" Kurt Cobain … The official cause of his death was suicide, although his method forced fans to put forward a version of a contract murder. Although these guesses were not confirmed over time, the musician's biographers admit: people who could save Cobain from death still existed, but did not act.

Some researchers believe that suicide was the logical end of the path that the musician had to go through throughout his life, and that the prerequisites for the manic-depressive disorder that arose in him were laid down in childhood. When he was 9 years old, his parents divorced, which was a hard blow for him: “I was ashamed of my parents. I could not communicate with classmates, because I really wanted to have a "decent" and complete family. Like everyone else,”the musician admitted. He did not find a common language with his stepfather, and he had to live either with his grandparents, or with relatives on the mother's side.

As a teenager, he learned that his uncle Barl had committed suicide by shooting himself in the stomach. After that, Kurt became depressed: “I sat for hours in my bedroom and strummed the guitar. I had no idea that because of my seclusion, the girls considered me a great original and constantly hit me. This fact simply surprised my few friends, because I was far from handsome. However, not one of the applicants managed to "promote" me, because at that time it seemed to me that I was a homosexual. In fact, it was a real misanthropy."

Sometimes he had bouts of unmotivated vandalism - he could arrange a pogrom in someone's apartment. Due to constant pain in the stomach, he became addicted to strong painkillers, and this dependence soon turned into a narcotic.

When his friends tried to save him, it was too late. At the end of March 1994, they persuaded him to undergo a rehabilitation course, but two days later the musician escaped from the clinic. Some modern experts say that doctors would have been able to help Cobain if they had paid attention in time to the presence of manic-depressive psychosis and, before treating him for drug addiction, sent him to a psychiatrist for consultation. His wife Courtney Love or friends could have insisted on this, but this did not happen.

The body of the deceased was discovered by an electrician during a routine inspection of the alarm system. This happened 3 days after death. No traces of violent actions were found, so suicide became the official version. As it turned out, the musician shot himself in the mouth with a gun. The door was locked from the inside, there was a suicide note on the table - everything pointed to suicide.

The greatest suspicions and doubts in the version of suicide among the fans were caused by the fact that before making a shot, Cobain injected - a dose of heroin three times higher than the lethal dose was found in his blood, as well as traces of a tranquilizer that enhances the effect of narcotic drugs. Many argued: in such a state, he simply would not have been able to carry out his plans, and he would not have had time - in this case, death should have occurred within a few seconds. And what was the point in this shot if death was already inevitable? In addition, the lock on the door was automatic, and it could be closed from either side by simply slamming the door hard.

The musician's wife Courtney Love was also named among the suspected organizers of the contract murder, set up for suicide. The reason for this was their frequent quarrels, there were rumors that Cobain was going to divorce her and even wanted to rewrite the will, removing his wife from it. She was confused in the testimony and claimed that she tried to discourage her husband from drugs, but this turned out to be untrue - after all, she herself was a drug addict. However, the version of Courtney Love's involvement in the murder has not been officially confirmed. Although fans still do not believe in Cobain's suicide, they accuse his wife, if not of complicity, then of connivance, and express more and more new assumptions.

After Cobain's death, his mother told reporters: “I was sure that everything would turn out like this, but I was not able to fix something. He told me that people want him dead, that such an outcome is quite logical. It's just fate, nothing more than "the continuation of the history of rock and roll."

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