Perhaps this is a bit tacky, but in a footnote of an excellent book called The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, there is a literal translation of the sanskrit "Nirvana" as a compound of "nir", or "out", and "vana," or "blown". Combined, this translates to "blown out", referring to the cessation of desire.
But it is also interesting to consider in regards to what ultimately happened to Kurt Cobain.