Kurt Cobain's Egoistic Suicide

Kurt Donald Cobain was born February 20th, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington. Son of Wendy Elizabeth and Donald Leland Cobain, Cobain was born in Grays Harbor Hospital. Ever since Kurt was a young boy, he has always had an interest in music as he started singing at 2 years old. At age four, he was writing songs, singing, and playing the piano. He was also listening to rock and roll at this age such as “The Beatles” or “The Ramones”. Cobain’s parents divorced at the age of nine and both of the adults remarried shortly after. Kurt has said in interviews that this had a very dramatic effect on him, even going as far as changing his personality. He had always dreamed of that perfect family, and since his parents decision stopped that from happening - he held a grudge.

For ten years my parents sheltered me from the truth about my Grandfather’s suicide. The day he died is a blur, but I remember our afternoons together in his garden reading books he brought home from the library he worked at, and evenings eating Chinese food and watching ice skating—two of his favorite things. Finding out he committed suicide left me with myriad questions. As I matured my desire for understanding intensified. Drawn to human behavior and the mechanisms that affect it, I applied to the University of California at Berkeley as a Psychology major. In the summer prior to beginning my studies Anthony killed himself.

Kurt Cobain was one of rock’n’rolls most well known musicians. He was the main founder of the band Nirvana, Kurt was the lead singer and guitarist. He's most known for his song ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ which was released in 1998. Kurt had a rough adult life which was influenced by his rocky childhood. When he was in his early teens he began experimenting with drugs, which he continued to use in his adult life. On April 5, 1994 Kurt was found dead in his home where he had overdosed on heroin and shot himself with a shotgun, it was ruled a suicide by officials but many think that his wife, Courtney Love, had something to do with it. Kurt Cobain is an example of a tragic hero because he was a very dedicated musician, who tragically took his life during the height of his career

Kurt Cobain was the singer and guitarist for Nirvana. He was born in Hoquiam (population 9,000) and after six months of life moved to Aberdeen (pop. 16,500), an old lumber town at the eastern-most point of Grays Harbor. The town is about four miles wide and three miles long. On the northern and eastern sides of town are steep hills where the richer families live in Victorian-style houses. At the foot of the

Kurt Cobain is the frontman of the 90’s rock band Nirvana. He was married to Courtney Love for two years before he died in 1994. The Seattle Police Department say that he had committed suicide but conspiracy theorists say otherwise. Some say that the police are wrong and he did not commit suicide but was, in fact, murdered. They say that Courtney Love was behind it. After a documentary called Soaked In Bleach was released in

Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of the Seattle based grunge rock band Nirvana. As Nirvana's lead songwriter, guitarist, and singer, Cobain took the music industry by surprise and is considered the godfather of the grunge rock movement. Cobain and his band had a prevalent influence on young teenagers of the 1990s and were considered idols by numerous individuals. Nirvana took the popular music industry by storm when they were able to revamp the genre of grunge rock and cause a dramatic shift in music, away from the dominant genres of the 1980s. The success of Kurt Cobain was overshadowed by numerous of his psychological problems including drug addiction, his unstable marriage to music celebrity Courtney Love, and constant pressure from the

Suicide is the act of killing yourself. It is the 11th leading cause of death in America (CDC 2009). I have never had any intentions on committing suicide and I never really understood why people commit suicide that’s why I chose this topic to help me understand what problems people go through that makes them do such a thing. Sociology is the study of social behavior and the culture of humans. There are numerous reasons like financial stress, family problems or mental health disorders that lead to suicide. The number one cause of suicide is untreated depression. The issues that were just listed are some social conditions from society that results in a suicidal

Kurt Cobain had a rough childhood, which eventually lead to a successful breakthrough. Before his success Cobain had a troubled past, “Cobain had a generally happy childhood until his parents

Twelve students, one teacher, two murderers dead, and twenty-one injured in Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The perpetrators Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, were both intelligent, but had issues getting along with other students at Columbine high school. However seemingly normal, both were deeply disturbed, hating everyone but a handful of people, in journals found Klebold had been contemplating suicide since 1997, and both have been thinking about a massacre in April of 1998, a full year before it happened. The both of them had been arrested for breaking into a van on January 30, 1998, they had convinced people that they felt guilty for the break in, but behind the scene planned a large scale massacre. The plan of the massacre was

Kurt Cobain. Kurt Cobain was the lead vocalist of the rock band Nirvana. He was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) while he was still young. In the later years of his life, he was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder. He also had depression and died through an overdose of champagne and Rohypnol.

At his younger ages, he was a sickly bronchitic kid. The situation became worse when he was seven, because his parent's divorced and he never felt in secure or being loved again, he was really lonely. Due to this situation he became anti-social. He often moved from relative to relative and unfortunately he became once homeless, who was living under a bridge, which is a shrine of the Nirvana fans until today. However, he later mentioned that these actions inspired lots of Nirvana’s music. At high school, his situation wasn’t better. Because of his strange and odd behavior, he didn’t have any friends and his schoolmates

Its mixture of punk and heavy metal truly displayed their sense of frustration, anger, depression and drug addiction (“Grunge Music”). However, as Shannen Doherty said “The music felt real and honest and true, and they captured what youth was going at that time” (“Nirvana in the Nineties”). Based on this statement, regardless of their messages, this anger infused band truly believed that citizens should be fully aware of the toxic problems that were going on in society. Examples of societal issues included several crimes such as assault, prostitution, and robbery that were committed under the influence of drugs (USA, DEA 91). Drugs, specifically heroin, were a major issue at the time. Heroin was previously smuggled into the United States from Asia, but it had a new source during the ‘90s—South America. The percentage of Southeast Asian heroin from the DEA’s Heroin Signature Program rose from 9 percent in 1977 to 58 percent in 1991 (USA, DEA 95). Because of this increase in heroin, it became more common to find in the United States. Even Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, had a heroin addiction. When he committed suicide in 1994, it was shown that he had heroin in his bloodstream. Several other grunge artists at the time were involved with drugs such as Alice in Chains, Sublime, and Hole (Rosier). Because of this, parents began to hate the type of music teenagers were being absorbed in during this time. For example, in the introduction of Grunge: Music and Memory Catherine Strong recalls her experience of grunge and said, “The rough metal boys and the soft, ballad loving girls all ‘got’ Nirvana, and agreed that it was good, and our parents hated it,” (Strong 1). Teenagers felt very isolated at this time, but became united through grunge. Teens felt like they could look up to artists such as Kurt Cobain because “[Kurt Cobain] sang the fear, and the anger, and all of the

The death of Kurt Cobain. Cobain walked away from treatment without informing his family or friends. Then convinced his friend into buying him a gun, claiming it was for protection. April 5, he returned home, wrote a suicide note quoting Neil Young’s lyric “better to burn out than to fade out.” April 8, not long before 9am The body of Kurt was found in the greenhouse above the garage of his home in Seattle. Across his chest laid a 20-gauge shotgun. An electrician installing a security system in his house discovered him. He had been missing for six days. (RollingStone) His identity was only found by his fingerprint. According to his wife, Courtney Love, the last thing

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England (“John” 1). At the time, World War II was going on (Burlingame, John Lennon: Imagine 14). His parents, Alfred “Alf” Lennon and Julia Lennon divorced when he was a child (Burlingame, John Lennon: Imagine 21) and he had to move in with his aunt and uncle (Burlingame, John Lennon: Imagine 25). In elementary school, he played guitar and harmonica, always enjoying music (Burlingame, John Lennon: Imagine 32). The first song he ever learned was “That’ll be the Day” by Buddy Holly (Burlingame, John Lennon: Imagine 33). As music took over his life, John got distracted and his aunt told him that he could not make a living by playing guitar (Burlingame, John Lennon: Imagine 36). When John was teenager, he started writing and composing music (Canale 1) as well as drawing and writing books. He wrote two books, “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works” (Watson 2). Similarly to Lennon, another musician got their inspiration at a young age. Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington to Wendy and Don Cobain (Burlingame, Kurt Cobain: Oh Well… 11). He came from a musical family and was introduced to music at an early age. When he was three years old, he wrote his first song, “Corn on the Cops.” When he started playing guitar, he held it backwards because he was left-handed, and played popular Beatles’ songs like “Hey Jude” (Burlingame, Kurt Cobain: Oh Well… 12). He was fourteen years old when he received his first electric guitar (Burlingame, Kurt Cobain: Oh Well… 18). Like John, Kurt was involved with the visual arts and enjoyed drawing, whittling, and painting (Burlingame, Kurt Cobain: Oh Well… 13). The two musicians’ background allowed them to prosper in the future.

Cobain’s personality fits rather easily into Alfred Adler’s theory of personality, especially in terms of style of life and birth order. Adler believed that “the individual creates the style of life,” rather than being a victim of fate (Schultz & Schultz, 2009, p. 137). He named four styles of life, dominant, getting, avoiding, and