Frances Bean Cobain has learned that grief “serves a purpose” in life.
The 31-year-old artist is the daughter of Courtney Love and the late Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain - who took his own life at the age of just 27 in 1994 - and took to social media on Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of his death.
She wrote on Instagram: “I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his coffee or the way it felt to be tucked in after a bedtime story. I always wondered if he would’ve caught tadpoles with me during the muggy Washington summers, or if he smelled of Camel Lights and strawberry nesquik (his favourites, I’ve been told).
”In the last 30 years my ideas around loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosing. The biggest lesson learned through grieving for almost as long as I’ve been conscious, is that it serves a purpose. The duality of life and death, pain and joy, the yin and yang nature of human existence which throws us into the depths of our most authentic lives.”
