Raskin (D-MD) and former Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom, wrote, “Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind.” In a gripping Medium post eulogizing their son and detailing his illness, Tommy’s parents, Rep. “Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me,” said the note, signed: “All my love, Tommy.” My illness won today,” Tommy Raskin wrote. His suicide note was short and painfully succinct: “Please forgive me. On New Year’s Eve, Congressman Jamie Raskin’s son, Tommy, took his own life. The Trevor Project hotline is 1-86, and is also 24/7. If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide, The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-80 and is 24/7. The family announced last week that they had created the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals in their son’s name.Ī private funeral is planned for next week.This op-ed discusses suicide. The Raskins described how their son donated half of his teaching salary “to save people with malaria by purchasing mosquito nets with global charities” and spent the rest on donations in each of his students’ names to other groups targeting global hunger. “He loved his students and they loved him back,” his parents wrote. He spent last fall as a teaching assistant in a Harvard Law justice course, meeting with his dozen students on Zoom and “finding what was precious in their work and teasing it out.” “Above all, he began to follow his own piercing moral and intellectual insights looking for answers to problems of injustice, poverty and war.” “He hated cliques and social snobbery, never had a negative word for anyone but tyrants and despots, and opposed all malicious gossip,” the post said. 30, 1995, the middle child was “a daring outspoken defender of all outcasts and kids in trouble” who spent hours in high school tutoring his peers. “making mischief, kicking the soccer ball in the goal, acting out scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird with his little sister in his father’s constitutional law class.”īorn Jan. The eulogy described Thomas’ youth in Takoma Park, Md. “On the last hellish brutal day of that godawful miserable year of 2020, when hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people all over the world died alone in bed in the darkness from an invisible killer disease ravaging their bodies and minds, we also lost our dear, dear, beloved son, Hannah and Tabitha’s beloved irreplaceable brother, a radiant light in this broken world.” The moving post detailed how Thomas began grappling with depression in his 20s, and how the illness was “a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him.”ĭespite a large support network of relatives, friends and doctors “the pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable at last for our dear boy.”
“Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind,” his parents wrote.
Known to loved ones as “Tommy,” the second-year student at Harvard Law School was remembered as an animal lover and passionate vegan devoted to helping others. My illness won today,” his parents said in a Medium post. In a note left for his family on New Year’s Eve, the day he died, Thomas Bloom Raskin wrote “Please forgive me. Jamie Raskin and his wife Sarah on Monday published a heart-wrenching tribute to their late son, confirming that the 25-year-old took his own life last week after a long battle with depression. TikTok star dead at 28: Idan Ohayon earned millions of likes mocking his weight The Post mourns Queen Elizabeth II, a paragon of near-extinct virtuesĬelebrities react to Queen Elizabeth’s death: Elton John, Mick Jagger and moreīBC correspondent falsely reported queen died, shocking Twitter
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