Kurt Cobain
On April 9th the world woke up to the news of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Those who followed the grundge music of Cobain's band, Nirvana, were angry, but not surprised. With songs such as "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" and constant references to suicide and drugs, suicide was the obvious explanation for his death. Kurt put it best when he said, "I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time." (Bozza) To many people, Cobain just joined the club of rock stars who self-destructed. Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Brian Jones set the precedent. The Seattle Police Department confirmed the conclusion everyone had already made; Kurt Cobain committed suicide. Sympathy was hard to find. After his death, Kurt was called a "worthless shred of human debris" by Rush Limbaugh. (Amirault). Even Cobain's fans were not sympathetic to the pain Kurt suffered at all. They were mad. At his vigil, the crowd chanted "a**hole" because they thought of Kurt as a coward. (Jones) Cobain already had undergone a near-death experience in Rome earlier in the year that may or may not have been a suicide attempt in which Cobain digested nearly fifty pills called Rohypno
The most important sign of homicide comes from Roger Lewis', "Dead Men Don't Pull Triggers: Observations on the Death of Kurt Cobain." In the essay, Roger Lewis states his belief in the homicide of Kurt Cobain because of the extreme dosage of morphine (heroin turns into morphine when it enters the system) in Kurt Cobain's system. Cobain had 1.52 milligrams of morphine per liter of blood. This is about three times the lethal dose for even the most severe user. With that level of morphine, Cobain probably had about 230 mg of heroin. That much heroin would lead to immediate and complete incapacitation or immediate death. The lethal dose of heroin has been known to go as low as 3 mg. The essay also includes a study of 3,586 heroin-related suicides. None of which involved a gun with the heroin, although some homicide cases studied paralleled Cobain's case. Very simply, Lewis' essay states there is no way Kurt Cobain could have pulled the trigger of a gun due to the extremely high level of morphine. This evidence leads to the conclusion someone else pulled the trigger. Lewis, Roger. "Dead Men Don't Pull Triggers: Observations on the death of Kurt Cobain." Online. Globalserve. 4 Jan. 1998. Available http://web.globalserve.net/~artnet/dmdpt97f/html. Wallace, Max and Ean Halperin. Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon. May Wallace: 1999
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