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You're not only a stirrer, you can't even get your facts right.

You are aware Cobain had written a song for the album In Utero entitled (but thankfully never recorded), I Hate Myself And I Want To Die?

Actually, no, he didn't. A record company exec or journalist (I forget which) asked him for the title of the album and it was an off the cuff, black-humoured joke. Cobain making fun of the whole musical angst thing, if you like. Self-deprecating humour? Almost certainly. An announcement of his impending death? I doubt it.

Are you also aware Cobain attempted to kill himself with a drug overdose a few months before?

Horsehooey. He was admitted to hospital in Italy a couple of WEEKS before his death, and the media jumped on it as an "OD suicide attempt". A man with that much access to high-grade heroin would not take a couple of pissy aspirin or acetaminophen and expect to die from it. Get real.

By your posts on this thread you have revealed yourself as both insensitive (towards me) and ill-informed (on the topic at hand, which was Nirvana).

Whatever your bag is with people who commit suicide, don't drag me into it without having the basic decency to introduce yourself and your agenda first. As it is, I am now too angry at you to care what your problem is...

Point one: What I was trying to show is how suicide affects those left behind to pick up the pieces and try to figure out why. Both myself and my brother had roommates who committed suicide. So as far as being insensitive, the answer is no. I still believe suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness, and will continue to believe so. There is nothing brave, heroic, or gallant about it, which is what someone else seemed to be implying. But you do not have to agree with me.

Point two: Kurt Cobain died from his own hand. Period. That's what the M.E. said, that's what his note said. I do not waste my time reading trash that the Enquirer wouldn't touch, written by people who believe wishing and thinking and hoping and praying will make it so. I have a tendency to read and believe what a reputable news source reveals, not some kook in a tin-foil hat with Nirvana posters spread out all over the walls of his attic bedroom. I hear there is some guy who has been stalking Courtney Love, accusing her of killing Cobain every chance he gets. She has already obtained a restraining order against the guy, he should pray she does not follow that with a lawsuit.