Fans across the world were stunned by the news of Kurt Cobains sudden and shocking death in 1994. Widely hailed as the John Lennon of his generation, Cobains name was also synonymous with disillusionment and unhappiness he had spoken, written lyrics and sung about suicide. Yet one question could almost be heard to echo around the world Why?
His fans struggled with the huge personal loss of their poet of pain, an artist who could read their minds, knew their problems and spoke their language the true voice of a generation. This artistic genius who fueled millions of record sales forced music industry executives to reassess their attitudes to drugs. Cobains death not only hurt financially, but his well-publicized drug abuse was symptomatic of an industry almost weaned on drugs. Because of this very public casualty of a veritable junkie hall of fame, the media ran features about the phenomena and mystery of suicide not only in the music industry, but in life.

Following the initial shock came the inevitable soul-searching for those closest to him what more should or could we have done? As one senior music industry executive said, The only thing that wasnt done for Kurt was putting him in a straitjacket and locking him in a room. But Im sure that there are a lot of people who are thinking now, Why didnt I do that?

But, while understandably born of frustration and perhaps even a sense of guilt, such thinking was the last thing Cobain needed. He was already a longstanding victim of psychiatric-styled help, where solutions are as desperate as the situations they continually fail to resolve. The truth is that from his preschool years, Cobain had been placed in his own chemical and physical straitjacket by those who diagnosed him as hyperactive.

An energetic, talented and creative child who liked to draw and sing Beatles tunes, Cobain was one of the growing wave of children who, since the 60s and 70s, have been exposed to addictive, mind-altering drugs under the guise of medication.

And if you are not content to romanticize Cobains suicide as something noble and worthy of martyrdom, if you are not happy with the discredited Freudian disturbed childhood routine, if you are really looking for the true reasons for his nightmarish suicide, then this simple statement probably holds most of the answer Cobain was a Ritalin child.
Leading pediatric neurologist Dr. Fred Baughman says hyperactivity is an illusion, a contrivance [and] a deception. Without a shred of scientific evidence, psychiatrists claim the symptoms of this disease include:

often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat;

often leaves seat in a classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected;

often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly;

is often on the go and often talks excessively.
And what of Ritalin? Ritalin is actually an amphetamine-like drug, but in children it acts as a tranquilizer. Its a Schedule II drug in the same category as opium, cocaine and morphine. Highly addictive, withdrawal from it can cause suicide. Side effects can include: loss of appetite, weight loss, inability to stay asleep, heart palpitations, drowsiness, joint pain, nausea, chest pain and abdominal pain. It can also cause hallucinations and increase bizarre and abnormal behavior.

But doesnt that sound like some psychiatrist didnt like Cobain being a typical child full of energy and, in Cobains case, probably full of independent, even precocious action and thus he put him on a highly addictive and physically dangerous drug to chemically suppress the child in him; to make him sit still?

And if all that is true, couldnt it underpin everything from his later drug addiction, to his severe physical problems, to his irrational behavior and finally to his suicide?

There is more. In Cobains case, Ritalin kept him awake. Consequently other drugs were prescribed to counteract it sedatives. And despite psychiatrys claims that Ritalin can help a child study, Cobain was and remained a poor student who dropped out of high school.

After years of prescription drugs, the progression to street drugs was almost a given a too often repeated consequence of Ritalin. For example, actress Jill Irelands adopted son was given Ritalin for childhood hyperactivity. She attributed this to his later use of cocaine and heroin. As did another mother, Faye ODonnell, whose son was prescribed Ritalin and later continued it illegally, then took up crank and speed because it made him feel normal again. Cobains battle with heroin addiction would become widely known over the years, as he repeatedly tried and failed to resolve his dependency.

Compounding the Ritalin were untreated chronic medical conditions which effected him his entire life including a curvature of his spine, which was aggravated by the weight of his guitar around his neck and a burning, nauseous stomach that often drove him to feelings of suicide. In fact, Cobain praised heroin as the only drug that quenched the fire in his gut. What nobody mentioned was that abdominal pain is a known side-effect of Ritalin intake by children.

His inherent artistic genius still intact, within a short time of leaving school, he recorded an album and signed with Geffen Records. However, increasingly crowded by the mental and physical legacy of prescribed, mind-altering drugs and ultimately street drugs, Cobains drug problem became critical. In desperation, wife Courtney Love and several friends enrolled Cobain in a psychiatric drug recovery center. Thirty-six hours after admission, he bolted from the program and in a small room above his garage in a quiet Seattle neighborhood, ended his life with a single shotgun blast to his head. Heroin and the addictive and potentially harmful psychiatric drug Valium were reportedly found in his bloodstream.

In his suicide note, he alluded to two things that had brought him to suicide the stomach pain that had haunted him for years, and his agony over his music, about which he wrote, I dont have the passion anymore. Chemically nullified, the music was gone and with this, Kurt Cobain was simply deprived of his prime reason for being.
hmmmmmmmmm I dont agree with all of this, but it is taken from the view of Kurt having commited suicide, and I know a lot of you out there probably believe this case. Personally I have some issues, but we need a well rounded insight to everything about it, all perspections have been considered.