Where are Kurt Cobain's ashes?
Andrew Mccoy
Updated on January 06, 2026
“If I don't get them back I don't know what I will do.” Most of the ashes of Cobain, the lead singer and songwriter for Nirvana, were scattered at a New York Buddhist temple and in the Wishkah River near Aberdeen, Wash., where he lived as a boy. He committed suicide in 1994.
Were Kurt Cobain's ashes found?
Kurt's Ithaca ashes have now been fully consecrated and formed into roughly a dozen tsatsas. A small shrine, called a nirvana stupa, is being made by a Tibetan Buddhist artisan to house them.Did Courtney Love ever get kurts ashes back?
A representative for Courtney Love has countered an Australian performance artist's claims that she is in possession of the remainder of Kurt Cobain's ashes, saying that the remains of the former Nirvana frontman were never actually taken.Where is Kurt Cobain's grave stone?
Kurt Cobain Has No GravesiteKurt Cobain, famous Seattle musician and leader of the 1990s grunge era, was not buried after his death in 1994; his body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in a memorial ceremony. The exact location where the ashes were scattered has not been revealed to the public.