Kurt Cobain's second cousin, who has written two books since the suicide of Nirvana's lead singer/guitarist in 1994, will be speaking to mental health advocates and others in the community on Dec. 12.
Bev Cobain, a registered nurse with credentials in psychiatric nursing, will speak about her family's experiences, including two uncles who also took their own lives, at the workshop sponsored by the Mental Health Association of East Central Florida and the local Suicide Prevention Coalition.
She'll also be talking about her books inspired by her cousin's death - "When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens" and "Dying to be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After Suicide.
"Anybody can be depressed and anybody can have suicidal thoughts at some time in their life," Cobain told me in a recent phone interview. "Depression is a physical, medical illness. It's not something to be joked about or to put off having treatment."
Read more today in the Daytona Beach News-Journal about how she feared her cousin was in trouble and needed help. But it was too late.
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