After Cobain's death, Love insisted that Cobain's overdose in Rome was a suicide attempt.
[35] Grant believes that such an assertion was not made until after Cobain's death, and that people close to Cobain, including Nirvana's management Gold Mountain, specifically denied the characterization prior to Cobain's death. Grant believes that if Rome had truly been a suicide attempt, Cobain's friends and family would have been told so that they could have watched out for him. Others have asserted that the claims by Gold Mountain and others were simply efforts to mask what was happening behind the scenes.
Lee Ranaldo, guitarist for
Sonic Youth, told
Rolling Stone, "Rome was only the latest installment of [those around Cobain] keeping a semblance of normalcy for the outside world."
[47] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Co...uicide_dispute