12 years ago today...

"The first time he saw heaven came exactly six hours and fifty-seven minutes after the very moment an entire generation fell in love with him. It was, remarkably, his first death, and only the earliest of many little deaths that would follow. For the generation smitten with him, it was an impassioned, powerful, and binding devotion--the kind of love that even as it begins you know is pre-ordained to break your heart and to end like a Greek tragedy."

--Charles Cross, on Kurt Cobain's heroin overdose after Nirvana's performance on Saturday Night Live.

Kurt Cobain was found on April 8, 1994, dead of an apparent suicide. They believed he did it on April 5.

I really wish he hadn't done it. For a myriad of reasons.
But I really wish it hadn't ended like a Greek tragedy.