Bled White. Again.

Listening to Elliott Smith's and thinking about him writing and recording those masterpieces is, to say the obvious, depressing.
Yeah, we all have our bad times when we want to die, but sticking a knife to your stomach, that takes a lot of cold-blood.

Does taking your life make you a hero or a loser?

I don't know too much about Smith's personal life, except that he could be hard to deal with. I'm reading the Kurt Cobain biography and it's just impossible not to make a connection, not only of their lives, but also their deaths.
Although Smith never reached the meteoric popularity of Nirvana, he has loyal fans who probably see in him an idol, much like Cobain's fans do.