Dear God...Why did you take them?

You have romanticized and attached yourself emotionally to these musicians' lives and deaths to the point beyond normalcy. I am not saying this to be cruel, but their music was just that, music. But in their deaths, they became legend and even more credibility was given to them. Do you know for sure that if they were still here, they could have stopped the evolution of music? That's a lot to put on anybody's shoulders.

You aren't just grieving over them. Their music probably symbolizes something more to you and their deaths represent the loss of that important thing. We all do that with music; we relate so much that we can remember a song, where we were, who we were with, etc. during some important event. Now you seem to be obsessed and stuck in your grieving process. Accept their deaths, enjoy their music. That way it's never lost.

Its normal. I didnt grow up with that music but my dad did and he has influenced my tastes in music (leading my friends to claim that I suffer from the mysterious '80's Syndrome'. I get pissed about not having those guys around today. Deep Purple, Guns 'n' Roses - how much happier i would be if they were today.

This reminds me of the huge outpouring of grief when Princess Diana died in the UK. People who had never met her in their lives, who's lives had not been affected by her one jot (aside from the odd morsel of tabloid titillation) suddenly become very emotional about her demise.
Sure it was sad but there are a lot of sad things in life. Personally I was very sad about all the tax I had poured into her champagne lifestyle and not even received so much as a hand job in the back of a dingy cinema, which normally follows this type of investment.

I think the funeral was highjacked as some monumentally proportioned emotional vehicle which allowed people to openly grieve - en masse. When will the pleb's learn?

I still mourn the death of John Lennon. Don't blame god - mankind is capable of crappy behaviour all on its own.

erm ... grow up????!!!!

Get over it. Better music is being made now anyway, though you aren't going to find it on the radio or Mtv. You are still lost in the bull shit hype that was early nineties rock.

God did not take them, they took their own lives.

I agree with the comment above.To the person who posted the original story-How can you say that God
took their lives if THEY KILLED THEMSELVES.It is not Gods fault if someone is so foolish as to took his own life.HE KILLED HIMSELF.STOP blaming God and GET OVER IT!

KURT COBAIN was a heroin using fuckwit, who did the ultimate selfish act of depriving his child of a father.A musically over rated Dickhead.