Frances Bean Cobain Posts Tribute to Dad Kurt Cobain on 30th Anniversary of His Death E- News

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00:00 Frances Bean is continuing to mourn the loss of her father, musician Kurt Cobain.

00:05 The 31 year old takes to her Instagram April 5th to share a moving tribute to

00:11 her late dad on the 30th anniversary of his death, writing, "30 years ago my dad's

00:16 life ended. In the last 30 years my ideas around loss have been in a continuous

00:22 state of metamorphizing. The biggest lesson learned through grieving for

00:26 almost as long as I've been conscious is that it serves a purpose. The duality of

00:30 life and death, pain and joy, yin and yang, need to exist alongside each other or

00:36 none of this would have any meaning." The model also shares several throwback

00:41 pics of herself and the Nirvana frontman saying, "The second and third photo

00:45 captured the last time we were together while he was still alive. I wish I could

00:50 have known my dad. I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his

00:55 coffee, or the way it felt to be tucked in after a bedtime story. He gifted me a

01:00 lesson in death that can only come through the lived experience of losing

01:04 someone. It's the gift of knowing for certain when we love ourselves and those

01:09 around us with compassion, with openness, with grace, the more meaningful our time

01:14 here inherently becomes." Frances then posts a sweet home video of her dad

01:19 playing with her as a baby.

01:23 "Fly. Want to fly? Fly. Fly. Ah. Nose. Tastes good.

01:35 Wanna barf in my mouth again? Three times the charm. Are you getting all this? Yes.

01:47 Aren't we lucky? The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer married fellow musician Courtney

01:53 Love in February 1992 and welcomed his only child, Frances, later that year.

01:59 However, Kurt died in 1994 at the age of 27 when Frances was just a year old

02:05 after taking his own life. The rock icon's daughter concludes her tribute by

02:10 saying that she still feels her father's presence all around her and expressing

02:14 her sympathy for others who have experienced a profound loss, writing, "He is

02:19 present in so many ways. In those moments I get to spend a little time with my dad

02:24 and he feels transcendent. To anyone who has wondered what it would have looked

02:28 like to live alongside the people they have lost, I'm holding you in my thoughts

02:32 today. The meaning of our grief is the same."

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