Frances Bean Cobain has shared an emotional post on the 30th anniversary of the passing of her father, Kurt Cobain.

The grunge icon’s daughter shared a series of photos on Instagram, writing a lengthy caption about the impact of her father’s death on her life. She was just one year old when he died.

“30 years ago my dad’s life ended,” she wrote, sharing an image of Cobain’s hands taken by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe (her godfather) followed by a series of photos of the father and daughter.

“The 2nd & 3rd photo capture the last time we were together while he was still alive. His mom Wendy would often press my hands to her cheeks & say, with a lulling sadness, ‘You have his hands’. She would breathe them in as if it were her only chance to hold him just a little bit closer, frozen in time. I hope she’s holding his hands wherever they are.”

She continued, “In the last 30 years my ideas around loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosing. 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 alongside 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. As It turns out, there is no greater motivation for leaning into loving awareness than knowing everything ends.”

Read her full caption below.

 

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