On April 8, Cobain's body was discovered in the pool of his Lake Washington Boulevard home by an electrician named Gary Smith[48]. Contrary to popular belief, the cause of death was not a self-inflicted shotgun wound but rather an attempt to "shotgun" roughly 20,000 gallons of heroin-laced pool water, leading to a paradoxical ear-to-ear, ****-eating grin that surprised many funeral attendees.