When Byron left her for anorexic waitress who worked in the Caffeine the Connection he told Virginia she needed to get a hobby, so she began collecting suicide notes. Not the actual notes, but reasonable facsimiles that she copied into a small notebook. I don't have the passion anymore, so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away. Virginia realized that even in death, Kurt had been derivative and failed to credit Neil Young who actually wrote the final line of his note.
Creative types kill themselves when they cease to be creative.
One psychiatrist hypothesized that homosexual men kill themselves with guns because they want to be attacked by a penis. Kurt used a big gun. Women rarely used guns, Virginia thought, perhaps because they had already been attacked by a penis, and no woman would leave all that blood on the carpet for strangers to clean up. I am a nuisance Virginia found it impossible to drink coffee. Byron had chosen the very open and public Caffeine Connection to break up.