In August 2005, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon was asked about Cobain's death in an interview for Uncut Magazine. When asked what she thought to be Cobain's motive for suicide, Gordon replied: "I don't even know that he killed himself. There are people close to him who don't think that he did..." [53] When asked if she thought someone else had killed him, Gordon answered, "I do, yes." In the same interview, Gordon's then-husband and collaborator Thurston Moore stated: It's ridiculous. He killed himself. I saw him the week beforehand, he was depressed. He tried to kill himself six weeks earlier, he'd talked and written about suicide a lot, he was on drugs, he got a gun. Why do people speculate about it? The tragedy of the loss is so great people look for other explanations. I don't think there's any truth at all to it. [55] Kurt Cobain's death – Dylan Carlson talking about it". YouTube. July 27, 2007. Archived from the original on June 21, 2014 . Retrieved August 3, 2013.

Pema liked her. She was very distressed and clearly in great pain, but funny, too, and smart. "What I did was I just stayed there and listened to her," he says. "I didn't speak much. I ended up staying there almost three hours. And I listened to her." Love wanted to chant with Pema, so he cut a deal with her. "Stop smoking," he said, "at least while I'm here. Then we can chant." She told him she really wanted to go up to the monastery, but Pema put her off. "She was not in good shape. I think she was dozing off, but she was trying to stay as clean as possible." People at the monastery worried that she wasn't ready. Pema went to see her again the next day. "She talked about the ashes. She wanted to know the proper Buddhist ritual to honor them. She was so sweet. She was saying how much she cared for the teenagers. And she was saying most people think she's doing terrible things to the kids but she was saying 'I really want to help them.' She was really interested in what happens when people die." Incredibly, next year will mark three decades since the release of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, yet Nirvana’s music doesn’t seem to have aged at all. Lanegan didn’t catch Post Malone’s recent live-streamed tribute to the band – as far as I can tell he has no idea who Post Malone is – but he isn’t surprised to hear that Cobain’s music still resonates with people so powerfully.

Logan BK, Oliver JS (October–November 1987). "The measurement and interpretation of morphine in blood". Forensic Science International. 35 (2–3): 189–195. doi: 10.1016/0379-0738(87)90055-7. PMID 3428802. Others, however, have dismissed or ignored the conspiracy theories surrounding Cobain's death. In an interview with The Independent, former Nirvana manager and friend of Cobain, Danny Goldberg, emphasized Cobain's erratic and depressed behavior in the days and weeks leading up to his death, stating, The following month, Love came east again. She phoned the monastery. Plans were made, then unmade. Flights were booked, then canceled. Three times, representatives of the monastery went to the tiny airport in Ithaca to wait for her, and three times she didn't show. Then, on July 2, Love booked a limousine and had herself driven from New York City five hours north and west to Ithaca.

The distinction between a free morphine count and a total morphine count is important in determining a survivable dose. A 2002 study in Forensic Science International by Meissner et al. "to distinguish fatal from non-fatal blood concentrations of morphine" showed that a total morphine count of 1.52 mg/L can be survivable, while a free morphine count above 0.12 mg/L is fatal. This study observed a highest non-fatal total blood morphine count of 2.11 mg/L in drivers who also tested positive for other drugs, indicating that being conscious enough to attempt driving a car is possible in extreme cases for subjects with a total morphine count significantly higher than 1.52 mg/L (the figure from Cobain's study). [39] Margaritoff, Marco (April 8, 2021). "Why Some People Think Kurt Cobain's Suicide Was Actually Murder". AllThatsInteresting.

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during the Taping of MTV Unplugged at Sony... News Photo." Getty Images. https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/kurt-cobain?mediatype=photography&phrase=kurt cobain&sort=mostpopular. Kurt Cobain Found Dead After Committing Suicide Three Days Earlier". World History Project. Archived from the original on September 1, 2013 . Retrieved June 18, 2021.

Several of Cobain's friends were surprised by his suicide. Mark Lanegan, a long-time friend of Cobain, told Rolling Stone: "I never knew Cobain to be suicidal. I just knew he was going through a tough time." [33] In the same article, Carlson stated that he wished Cobain or someone close to him had told him that the Rome incident was a suicide attempt. Danny Goldberg, founder of Gold Mountain Records, refers in his book Dispatches From the Culture Wars: How the Left Lost Teen Spirit to "the crazy Internet rumors that Kurt Cobain had not committed suicide but had been murdered," stating that Cobain's suicide "haunts him every day". [34] Lanegan did run his fledgling book past Josh Homme, who’d been a touring guitarist with Screaming Trees between the break-up of Kyuss and the formation of Queens of the Stone Age. It turned out to be a productive exercise because Homme was able to fill in certain gaps in the narrative. There was one night on tour when Lanegan had written that he’d been unable to score any dope. It fell to his friend to remind him exactly why that was: they’d been threatened at shotgun-point by dealers who took the clean-shaven Homme for an undercover cop.

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Vineyard, Jennifer (April 5, 2004). "New Book Claims Kurt Cobain Didn't Commit Suicide". MTV.com . Retrieved December 11, 2019.