"27 Club"

As you know, many of the best rock star legends died quite young, and the most common age of death was 27 years old. Some of these who died at this age are Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Layne Staley, Peter Ham, Gary Thain, and Kurt Cobain. Their untimely deaths have often been connected with uneasy lives and psychological issues, with a lot of physical neglect in between, usually due to alcohol or drug abuse, or both. Probably 90% of rockstars up to the 90's had problems with drugs, and even bigger problems when they stopped taking them. I also read that peoples personality stopped changing much after they hit 30, so it seems, then, that getting old is a major threat to our creative enterprises, especially if you are a rock star. Most people become more conforming, more adjusted, more boring, less creative. So that's why I think most rock stars die at age 27, because they're in the middle ground of being young, rebellious, and hardcore into drugs to cope with their troubled lives, yet being creative geniuses, and being old boring, non-creative geniuses. This probably troubles the rock star inside immensely, and they can't find what to do with their life, so they just end it.