So my take on Kurt Cobain, as someone who has spent a lot of time researching him, reading everything he wrote, listening to his interviews, reading about him: he had severe mental illness that manifested very early in his life. He had depression that was exacerbated by ...
... severe addiction issues; both, in fact, ran on both sides of his family. All of this was of course compounded by a level of mass fame--and pressure--that is almost incomprehensible now. Moreover, the modalities of dealing with addiction and depression, to say nothing of ...
... their combination, in the 90s were, let's say, not ideal for Kurt. I'm no forensics expert, but contextually, suicide makes a lot of sense given Kurt's various historical and emotional realities. And until there is a literal smoking gun, I find it difficult to overturn ...
... the story of how he died.
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