"My world became a nightmare, there were just shadows around me. I got a call saying that my dad had died, but my family always knew he was around doing all kind of drugs. Since that call I always was wondering, 'Where is my dad?' I felt so sad for him and I missed him. He dropped out of my life for 15 years."

On April 19, 2002, an unidentified person placed a call with 911 to say "She hadn't heard from…Staley in about two weeks." Staley was found dead in his home after, "his mother and stepfather went to his condo with the police." As reported by Rick Anderson of the Seattle Weekly, his body was surrounded by various drug possessions and paraphernalia: "When police kicked in the door to Layne Staley's University District apartment on April 20, there, on a couch, lit by a flickering TV, next to several spray-paint cans on the floor, not far from a small stash of cocaine, near two crack pipes on the coffee table, reposed the remains of the rock musician." The article also stated that the 6'1" Staley weighed just 86 pounds when his body was discovered. The autopsy report later concluded that Staley died after injecting a mixture of heroin and cocaine known as a "speedball". The King County Coroner's Office estimated Staley to have died on April 5, 2002, exactly 8 years after fellow grunge musician Kurt Cobain also died (Cobain was found three days later, on April 8). Staley's body was not discovered until two weeks later.

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This is what the poem says at the end of the video:
Our angry little angel has said good-bye,
He wanted so badly to fly,
Did what he needed just to get by...
So much pain held inside,
All his fears made him hide,
No longer have his wings been denied...
His sweet and haunted voice touched us all,
Yet through this sad time we must stand tall,
Finally his mind is at ease,
We love you, Layne; rest in peace.