Is it really suicide? The theory proving that Kurt Cobain didn’t want to die

On April 5, 1994, the twenty-seven-year-old leader of Nirvana died. According to the official version, the musician took a shock dose of heroin, after which he shot himself in the head with a pistol. Backing this up was a suicide note that said Kurt was tired of being a rock star and decided to quit at the top.

However, fans refuse to believe until the last moment that their idol could die voluntarily. They are also not convinced by the fact that Cobain is far from the first suicide in his family and many of his interviews are saturated with thoughts of death. Once, for example, when asked by a neighbor how Kurt sees himself in his thirties, he replied that he does not plan to live to be 30.

And yet, there’s a reason for fans’ stubbornness, namely a few facts that don’t add up. Private investigator Tom Grant, who took up the investigation, claimed that there were no prints of Cobain himself on the gun. In addition, he rested on the fact that the concentration of drugs in the musician’s blood was fatal and he simply would not have had the strength to pick up a weapon.

A certain Ed Hawk, who claimed that Courtney Love offered to kill her husband, died under strange circumstances – he was hit by a train.

In 1998, the film “Kurt and Courtney” was released, which described the version according to which Cobain’s wife was behind the murder. Then came the article Who Killed Kurt Cobain?, where journalists questioned the work of officials investigating the death of the musician.

Many believe that Courtney Love was jealous of her husband’s success and tried to avoid a possible divorce, at some point she went to extremes. Some also note that the musician’s alleged suicide note did not contain direct references to suicide – perhaps he just wanted to leave the stage.

In 2014, the already mentioned Tom Grant took care of reopening the case of Kurt’s murder. But then only the original version of suicide was confirmed. In 2021, the FBI released a 10-page report detailing why it could not take over the investigation (because it was under local government jurisdiction and there was little reason to interfere).

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