At the Height of His Career Why

             Kurt Cobain was citied in the Seattle area with a shotgun. Days later on the fifth
             of April, Kurt Cobain went into the small room above his garage in his Seattle home and
             ended it all. Fans across the world were stunned by the news of Kurt Cobain's sudden
             and shocking suicide. Kurt was the leader of the multiplatinum grunge band Nirvana,
             and was widely hailed as the " John Lennon of his generation." He was a gifted song
             writer and erratic performer. However, Cobain's name was presented at times with
             disillusionment and unhappiness. Kurt had spoken, written lyrics, and even sung in his
             songs about suicide. Yet, one question could almost be echoed around the world – Why?
             Cobain' s fans struggled with the huge loss of their " poet of pain." It was as
             though they had lost a close friend. They felt that Kurt was an artist who could read their
             minds, knew their problems, and spoke their language. No one seemed to understand why
             at the height of his popularity a twenty-seven year old rock sat would put a twenty-two
             gauge shotgun in his mouth and pull the trigger.
             The media attacked the incident. Every type of media from MTV to the entire local
             Newspapers spoke something of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Some blamed the suicide on his
             unhappy childhood and how he was a Ritalin child. While others blamed it on his drug
             addiction that he had spent all of his young life trying to relieve himself from. But why
             the reasoning for the unpredictable suicide, Cobain left behind millions of fans asking
             Why? Most people who commit suicide do so for personal reasons, such as
             despair, fears of the future, fears of failure or of not being loved. Society plays a huge
             part in a lot of suicides. As society becomes more complex a person's stress level rises
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