La Pieta

-------- And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die"…
from Nick Cave

curt cobain's suicide note

For those who have made such a vociferous start to career, those on the stage of limelight, their history tends to include incidents of depression, violence, paranoia and deliberate self-harm at a level abnormally high. On the other hand, all the "wilderness years" lays bricks for the wall with the compulsive energy they brought to every activity. They are a legend of their own, an international liberation icon, a rebellious standard-bearer, the centre of a sometimes frantic world-wide cult, AND, a pilgrim that would most easily accept the way to end their life in a sudden-fading-away manner.

Why? Is it because they are automaniacs, driven to self-obsession by the constant pain of distinguishing themselves from others, so that they managed to illustrate pain and to make those illustrations bold?

Jeff Buckley：A Wished-For Song

There might not be many David Bowies, while there are many David Bowies who sold the rights to future royalties from his extensive collection of songs. All future sales of his work will be paid to the bondholders who in effect now own the rights to his music. There might not be many Kurt Cobains, while there are many Kurts who raised the question how a star dies and provided the answer what sort of explosion and remnant it could produce. However, in whichever case, they're pursuing their distinct individual, or to put it another way, mutual, as they're referred to as the same group of human beings, objectives. They sing purely and strongly with an edge of harshness. Their minds have never been unbalanced. Their death need never be presumed. We will never know what it meant when a suicide note was being written with "Please keep going Courtney, for Frances. For her life, which will be so much happier without me." We will never seek to prove that Jeff was simply drowned instead of going into the water and then vanishing. Some call it ruritania; some call it absurdia. But, is it always much sweeter to hear the gossip that Elvis finally resurfaced in Ontario in July…The story after their disappearance is just another posture they do besides music, silent.

Having lived with passion, silence, fame and pains, maybe death is the only true, quiet moments of their tumultuous life through which they could have their soul of ultra aestheticism honed.