Inside Kurt Cobain's Tragic Suicide 25 Years After the Nirvana Legend's Death

On April 5, 1994, the world lost Kurt Cobain, who, at age 27, took his own life at his Seattle home with a 20-gauge shotgun. His body was found two days later by an electrician.
In a 1994 article in Rolling Stone magazine, writer Neil Strauss took a deep dive into the Nirvana singer’s final days, including a look at his lengthy battle with drugs and depression.
Cobain’s body had been found to contain high traces of heroin and Valium when he died, though at the tim