APRIL 14, 1994 – Kurt Cobain was cremated at the Bleitz Funeral Home in Seattle, Washington. The death certificate listed Cobain’s occupation as poet/musician and his type of business as “punk rock”. Most of Cobain’s ashes were later scattered at a New York Buddhist temple and in Washington’s Wishkah River.
In June 2008, Cobain’s widow Courtney Love went public with the news that what remained of her late husband’s ashes were stolen from her Los Angeles home. She was apparently storing them in a pink bear-shaped handbag in her closet, which she claimed a friend had swiped. “I can’t believe anyone would take Kurt’s ashes from me,” Love said at the time. “They were all I had left of my husband. Now it feels like I have lost him all over again.” However, the theft was never confirmed.
