Kurt Cobain

Born: February 20, 1967, Aberdeen, Washington, USA

Died: April 5, 1994, Seattle, Washington, USA
Cause of Death: Suicide by gunshot
Spouse: Courtney Love (m. 1992-1994)
Children: Frances Bean Cobain
Parents: Wendy Cobain, Donald Cobain

The Fender Mustang Lake Placid Blue guitars played

by Kurt Cobain during the filming of the video for "

Smells Like Teen Spirit", shown at the Seattle Experience Music

On April 10, 1994, a public memorial service was held at Seattle Center, where a recording of Courtney Love reading Cobain's suicide note was played. Near the end of the vigil, Love arrived and distributed some of his clothing to fans who remained. In the following days, Love publicly consoled and mourned with fans who came to her house.

Cobain's body was cremated. Love divided his ashes; she kept some in a teddy bear and some in an urn. In 1994, Love took another portion of his ashes to the Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in Ithaca, New York. There, some of his remains were ceremonially blessed by Buddhist monks and mixed into clay, which were used to make memorial sculptures.^[2] A final ceremony was arranged for Cobain by his mother on May 31, 1999, that was attended by both Love and Tracy Marander. A Buddhist monk chanted while his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, scattered his ashes into McLane Creek in Olympia, Washington, the city where he "had found his true artistic muse,,Cobain's cousin Beverly, a nurse, stated that the singer's family had a history of suicide. Beverly said Cobain's bipolar disorder and his struggles with drug addiction led him to suicide.
In Charles Cross's biography Heavier Than Heaven, Nirvana band member and bass guitarist Krist Novoselic is quoted on seeing Cobain in the days before his intervention: "He was really quiet. He was just estranged from all of his relationships. He wasn't connecting with anybody.Novoselic's offer to buy a nice dinner for Cobain resulted in unintentionally driving him to score heroin: "His dealer was right there. He wanted to get fucked up into oblivion ... He wanted to die, that's what he wanted to do.In his own book, Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy, Novoselic alludes to the circumstances of Cobain's death: "Tragically, Cobain picked the wrong way to resign from the position he was thrust into.

In March 2014, the Seattle Police Department developed four rolls of film that had been left in an evidence vault (no reason was provided for why the rolls were not developed earlier). According to the Seattle police, the 35mm photographs depict the scene of Cobain's corpse more clearly than previous Polaroid images taken by the police. Detective Mike Ciesynski, a cold case investigator, was asked to look at the film because "it is 20 years later and it's a high media case." Ciesynski stated that the official cause of Cobain's death remains suicide and that the images will not be released publicly