I've often wondered if his death was actually a suicide. Anyone here have strong beliefs one way or the other over if he was murdered or took his own life?

TXAG 05 said:

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Plus the suicide was written in someone else's handwriting. There were some song lyrics in his handwriting but the only part about dying or whatever was written by someone else. And like said above, he had enough heroin in his body to kill a horse. He wasn't writing notes or loading and shooting a shotgun.

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There is so much there. The hand writing point is bizarre. I believe Nirvana's contract was going to be completed with Sub Pop after the fourth album was released and Cobain had already told David Geffen he was not signing a new deal. Love apparently was friends with people on the Seattle PD. There were nine figures worth of money tied to Cobain staying married and staying at Sub Pop. And to make it stranger the man rumored to have killed Cobain got run over by a train…

It is not out of the ordinary for abusive spouses that are being left to off the spouse that is leaving.

There is a documentary about this out there somewhere. I remembered that the room above the garage where he was found had been locked from the inside which discouraged the thought of foul play.

Plenty of loose lips have been associated with the situation. Police, friends, etc.

So the genius plan was to kill Kurt, so he couldn't put out anymore music on a different label.

, therefore making his previous efforts all the more valuable.

DannyDuberstein said:

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Cliff.Booth said:

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Which seems more probable
- Courtney Love is smart enough to pull off killing someone and making it look enough like a suicide that she gets away with it
- Kurt is a depressed dude fighting addiction and in a manic low decides to end it all and escape the cycle of misery

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This. It's not interesting. He had major, major issues. Prone to massive depression. Debilitating stomach pain. A previous serious suicide attempt. Went the pill route, that didn't work. Went for certainty this time.

And she had way too many issues of her own to pull it off and keep it perfectly quiet. Too many junkies with loose lips. I don't buy the conspiracy. You know where else there is $$$? Selling conspiracy theories.

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Agreed.

VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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Plenty of loose lips have been associated with the situation. Police, friends, etc.

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I think this has been mostly folks looking to make a quick buck selling conspiracy, which was my last point. Anything with actual legs goes somewhere, but none of it has any actual legs. We love a good conspiracy. So it's an easy way to make a few bucks selling an insider take, get some clicks, or get attention in some way to further your personal interest

Honestly, I am way more fascinated with the psychology of conspiracy theorists than most of the theories themselves. Sometimes bad, random, seemingly pointless things happen, trying to assign them meaning or blame is a wasted exercise. But it seems necessary for some.
If you read the actual info from the case and not the click bait stuff, there's almost zero doubt as to what happened and why.

Elvis did it

oragator said:

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Honestly, I am way more fascinated with the psychology of conspiracy theorists than most of the theories themselves. Sometimes bad, random, seemingly pointless things happen, trying to assign them meaning or blame is a wasted exercise. But it seems necessary for some.
If you read the actual info from the case and not the click bait stuff, there's almost zero doubt as to what happened and why.

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Same. I think it mostly shows that the human race is ******ed and we are ultimately ****ed

So he did know something on the Clinton's

Relevant to this topic and a funny glimpse into how communications have changed over the past 32 years, here's my Kurt Cobain suicide story.

At the beginning of March 1994, I was in the field at Fort Knox, Kentucky during our "10 Day War" capstone event for the US Army Armor School's - Armor Officer Basic Course (what they call ABOLC today).

We had no source of news other than the 1SG who brought us food every day. Once in a while, somebody would ask the First Sergeant if there was any news from "The World" since we were living on our Abrams Tanks and were cut off from the outside world.

He tells us that Kurt Cobain had overdosed. We all got really sad and talked about how great Nirvana had been and added Kurt to the 27 Club along with Morrison, Hendrix, Janis, etc. We all assumed that "overdosed" meant "overdosed and died". We completed our Kurt Cobain death grieving process while we were in the Field.

Since I was a National Guardsman, the next month, I'm back home in Austin and doing substitute teaching while I'm looking for an Engineering job.

I was substituting at Round Rock McNeil in April 1994 and a bunch of students come into class crying and I asked them what's wrong? They told me that Kurt Cobain had died.

I laughed out loud. I said yeah, he died last month, are you just now finding out? I assumed it was some sort of ruse for HS kids to try to get out of doing work.

Well, come to find out (a month later), Kurt Cobain had survived the overdose but now, had decided to use a shotgun so the net result was - Kurt Cobain was dead.

After I got home that evening and saw the news, I felt kind of stupid but I didn't have a second grieving period or anything because I was shocked to find out he was still alive only to find out that he was in fact dead again.