Frances Bean Cobain has learned that grief "serves a purpose" in life.
Frances Bean Cobain paid tribute to her late father Kurt on the 30th anniversary of his death
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 Friday (05.04.23) 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 favorites, 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."
The former model concluded her post with a line from a letter her father had written to her before he died and noted that he is still "present" in her life as she reached out to others who have also last loved ones.
She added: "'Wherever you go or wherever I go, I will always be with you.'
"He kept this promise because he is present in so many ways," she continued. "Whether it's by hearing a song or through the hands we share, in those moments I get to spend a little time with my da and he feels transcendent."
"To anyone who has wondered what it would've looked like to live along side the people they have lost, I'm holding you in my thoughts today. The meaning of our grief is the same."
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