This Day in History:
Kurt Cobain Dies By Suicide April 5, 1994 The Nirvana frontman died by
suicide in his Seattle home
after struggling with drug
addiction and depression for years. The rock icon had checked
himself out of a Los Angeles
rehab just a week earlier. His body wasn't discovered
until three days later when
an electrician visited the home
to install a security system. Police found a suicide note
written by Cobain, in which
he quoted the Neil Young lyric that
it's “better to burn out than to fade away.” Despite being ruled a suicide
by authorities, Cobain's death
has been widely blamed on
his partner, singer Courtney Love. After the song "Smells Like
Teen Spirit" rocketed Nirvana to
world wide fame, Cobain had been
referred to as "the spokesman of a generation." He was just
27 years old
when he died.