Kurt Cobain mourned 30 years later: ‘Wherever you go or wherever I go, I will always be with you’

Daughter Frances Bean Cobain shared the few photos she had with dad and a touching statement about the nature of grief and loss.

Kurt Cobain continues to have a strong presence in his daughter Frances Bean Cobain's life, 30 years after his untimely death.

Francis Bean, 31, marked the somber date by sharing family photos to her Instagram page on Friday, the day that marked her father's death by an apparent suicide.

"In the last 30 years my ideas around loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosing," she captioned the haunting images. "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 & death, pain & joy, yin & yang, need to exist along side each other or none of this would have any meaning. It is the impermanent nature of human existence which throws us into the depths of our most authentic lives."

The series of photos included a shot of Kurt's hands (in the caption, she remembers her grandmother telling her “you have his hands”) as well as pictures of her as a child with him ("the last time we were together while he was still alive"). She writes that she wishes she knew him better, including his specific tastes, but is thankful for what she's learned through the long grieving process.

"Kurt wrote me a letter before I was born. The last line of it reads, 'Wherever you go or wherever I go, I will always be with you,'" she writes. "He kept this promise because he is present in so many ways. 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 dad & he feels transcendent."

Kurt was the lead singer and guitarist of ground-breaking band Nirvana, who rocketed to superstardom via the Gen X anthem, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Nirvana quickly became a generational beacon, but the pressure of being a zeitgeist-defining icon proved too much for Kurt.

Despite the pain Kurt experienced in life, he definitely loved his daughter, even though they were together for a limited time. In EW's April, 22, 1994 cover story, which ran 17 days after the musician's death, photographer Kevin Mazur said, "He loved this kid. Every chance he got when she was around, he’d be playing with her. He’d make faces at her and she’d be hysterical.”

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