History TearJerker / AliceInChains

--> "His demise is one of the longest lasting personal tragedies; one of the longest suicides of rock and roll."

** "Died" takes this [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]]. After all of their struggles, the frustration, the blame, Layne still loved Demri, ''desperately'', and her death ''destroyed'' him. In the six years between Demri's death and Layne's, he never even began to get over her. It really does seem like it was Demri's death that pushed Layne over the edge, [[DespairEventHorizon taking away his last reason for wanting to live]]. What's even sadder is the parallels between Layne's death and Demri's death. Both of them (obviously) died from heroin use. Details around Demri's death are really vague, but the story that seems to fit with the report on her death certificate best says that she overdosed while in the back of her current boyfriend's car, while he nodded off on heroin inside a convenience store. It was apparently ''hours'' before anyone noticed something wrong, and by then it was too late. In their own ways, both Layne and Demri were abandoned before they died (Most people had almost forgotten Layne since he was so reclusive in his last years, and Demri was unwittingly left alone as she was dying by her boyfriend).

* The "Final Years" and "Death" sections of Layne Staley's Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layne_Staley page]] are easily one of the most tragic stories in rock music.