Kurt Cobain Research Paper

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Famous rock legend. Singer and guitarist of the popular band Nirvana. Was found dead on April 8, 1994 in his home in seattle.Cobain had attempted suicide before which help the police with the decision of ruling this case as a suicide. Though this case was ruled a suicide, many people had other theories. Some thought his ex-wife played a part in his death or maybe his drug addiction led him to an unintentional death. Now that he is gone the world will never know what actually happened, though most people have their theories.
Family and friends of Cobain had noticed a change and his addiction getting worse as he was put into a rehab treatment center for his drug addictions and depression along with suicidal thoughts. Cobain’s ex-wife Courtney Love also well known in the music industry, had hired aprivate investigator by the name of Tom Grant, before his death,to check up on him, after Kurt’s death Grant became increasingly interested in Cobain's relationship with Love and with his death, he began to question the police ruling. This led Tom to investigate
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According to VIBE.com they were “One of the most misgudied relationships in history”. Many of the couple's family members and friends vouched for this to be true. Today in this time you hear a lot of how mostly young couples talk about how they evny and would love a relationship like Kurt and Courtney had but these people are just looking at the surface of this relationship and not digging deep to look at the borderline abusive and to be frant very messed up pieces and parts of their relationship. Sure to some people from the outside who did not know about the drugs or threatening to leave each other under different circumstances. The relationship was studied so often by so many people for so long and no one still has a clear answer on what was really happening the whole time they dated a lot of he said she said is what people found to be true, but somehow people still find it to be so romantic to be this rockstar ,grudge couple from the 1990s’ that spent a good portion of their relationship doing hard drugs and nearly leaving each other numerous times.None of this to say that they were never in love “asking anyone that knew the couple knew that they were in love and they did their best for their daughter” (Francis Bean Cobain) who was only around 19 months old when Kurt passed. source from the novel “Kurt and Courtney” Written by: Nick Wise{with passages from Cobain and Love

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