He was 40.... That sounds very "adult", but of course only in 1995 - the primetime of alternative/grunge loserdom - he was a rockin' 30 years old, still down with "the scene".
Surely this must be categorized a teenage suicide, triggered by an epiphany of who he really was - an immature brat who had wasted his life pursuing false and useless passions, only to find his sad, unshaven face in a jail among criminals like himself.
Look at today's young rebels: the same spoiled, uninspired, medicated punks -- all out fighting Bush Oil and other synthetic enemies.
Doubtlessly, they will call this man, this 40-year-old boy, a "hero".