Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Torment of rock hero Cobain - BBC News
Cobain was a complex individual, dogged by self-hatred and debilitated by acute stomach ulcers for much of his short adult life.
"Since the age of seven, I've become hateful towards all humans in general," he wrote in his suicide note.
...
His early childhood was difficult, and at the age of four he was prescribed Ritalin for hyperactivity.
Aged nine, his mechanic father Donald and mother Wendy divorced, and Kurt went to live with his father in a trailer park.
He spent time being moved between his father, grandparents and aunts and uncles, becoming depressed and withdrawn.
He said later: "I remember feeling ashamed all the time. I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family."
...
But there were sinister portents of what was to come - in his 15th year, he made a short Super 8mm film called Kurt Commits Bloody Suicide in which he pretended to cut his wrists and writhed around in blood. "I'm going to be a super star musician, kill myself and go out in a flame of glory," he told a school friend.
...
But their sudden success and its spoils only increased Cobain's deep-seated anxieties and his sense of inner conflict. ...
At the same time, his excruciating physical pain had led to a spiralling heroin addiction.
...
In the end, though, no-one could save him from himself.
On 1 April 1994, he left a rehab centre in California and was later reported missing. A week later, electrician Gary Smith called at his cottage overlooking Lake Washington to carry out some work, and found Cobain's body on the floor with a shotgun next to it.
Police said he had apparently barricaded himself into a granny flat behind the property, put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. ...
Cobain was a complex individual, dogged by self-hatred and debilitated by acute stomach ulcers for much of his short adult life.
"Since the age of seven, I've become hateful towards all humans in general," he wrote in his suicide note.
...
His early childhood was difficult, and at the age of four he was prescribed Ritalin for hyperactivity.
Aged nine, his mechanic father Donald and mother Wendy divorced, and Kurt went to live with his father in a trailer park.
He spent time being moved between his father, grandparents and aunts and uncles, becoming depressed and withdrawn.
He said later: "I remember feeling ashamed all the time. I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family."
...
But there were sinister portents of what was to come - in his 15th year, he made a short Super 8mm film called Kurt Commits Bloody Suicide in which he pretended to cut his wrists and writhed around in blood. "I'm going to be a super star musician, kill myself and go out in a flame of glory," he told a school friend.
...
But their sudden success and its spoils only increased Cobain's deep-seated anxieties and his sense of inner conflict. ...
At the same time, his excruciating physical pain had led to a spiralling heroin addiction.
...
In the end, though, no-one could save him from himself.
On 1 April 1994, he left a rehab centre in California and was later reported missing. A week later, electrician Gary Smith called at his cottage overlooking Lake Washington to carry out some work, and found Cobain's body on the floor with a shotgun next to it.
Police said he had apparently barricaded himself into a granny flat behind the property, put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. ...
Labels: anger, suffering, suicide
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