Huh?

A singer-songwriter named Elliot Smith, whom I'm not young enough or hip enough to have heard of, killed himself yesterday.

Smith was found by his live-in girlfriend Tuesday, Los Angeles County Coroner Records Supervisor Marsha Grigsby told AP Radio. He sustained a single stab wound to the chest that appeared to be self-inflicted, she said. -- AP Story

He stabbed himself in the heart so that his girlfriend would come home and find the body? Talk about hostile! Like I said, I never heard of the guy, but listening to the NPR profile on All Things Considered as they talked incessantly about the guy's music and what a sad but cool guy he was, I was still back at the part about the girlfriend discovering his body. Wonder what their relationship was like.