![]() ![]() (Source: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, By Charles R. Kurt reportedly told eighth grade friend John Fields while walking home from school, “I’m going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory … I want to be rich and famous and kill myself like Jimi Hendrix.” At the time Kurt believed Hendrix’ death was a suicide. ![]() Although at the time the film and photos may have been meant to be comical or irreverent, they are hauntingly eerie in retrospect.Ĥ. Kurt was photographed several times pointing guns at his head and also into his mouth in the same manner as his suicide. ![]() Kurt made a Super-8 film as a teenager which depicts him violently cutting and stabbing himself with a knife. Kurt allegedly told an eighth grade friend, Rod Marsh, that he had “suicide genes” citing Burle’s and other relatives suicides. Kurt’s great-uncles, brothers Burle and Kenneth Cobain, both died by suicide by self-inflicted gunshots to the head with Burle also shooting himself in the stomach in 19 respectively. ![]() None of Kurt’s bandmates or close relatives, including his daughter and mother, believe that he was murdered.Ģ. Today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 55th birthday.ġ. This article was written by Mike Ratherson and originally was published on Alternative Nation in April 2014. ![]()
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