Rep. Jamie Raskin and his wife release a heart wrenching statement on suicide of 25-year-old son
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. and his wife, Sarah, a former deputy secretary of Treasury, launched a heart-wrenching obituary on Monday, confirming that their 25-year-old son Thomas “Tommy” Bloom Raskin died on Dec. 31 by suicide.
The obituary highlights Tommy Raskin’s life as an animal lover, dedicated vegan and ethical philosophy devotee. It additionally speaks to his dedication of serving others throughout his younger life, from his participation in Montgomery Blair High School’s tutoring program, the place he mentored his friends in English and math, to changing into a educating assistant at Harvard University, At the famend faculty, he donated half of his educating wage to avoid wasting folks with malaria by buying mosquito nets with world charities and made particular person donations in every of his college students’ names to Oxfam, GiveDirectly and different teams focusing on world starvation.
“Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind,” his dad and mom wrote in a Medium publish.
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The obituary explains that Raskin was “tortured” by a “blindingly painful and merciless ‘disease called depression,’” and that, regardless of a robust assist community of loving household, mates, and doctctors, “the pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable” for the “young man of surpassing promise to our broken world.”
“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 statement concluded. “He left us this farewell note on New Year’s Eve day: ‘Please forgive me. My illness won today. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. All my love, Tommy.’”
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The Raskin household will hold a private funeral service on Tuesday morning, adopted by digital public memorial companies later this month. In addition, the household introduced the launch of the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals by way of the Greater Washington Community Foundation.
The fund, which has been launched with an intial contribution of $50,000, will distribute cash on a semiannual foundation to causes an charities championed and superior by Tommy Raskin, together with Oxfam, Give Directly, the Helen Keller Institute, and Animal Outlook.
If you or somebody you realize is in danger of suicide please name the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, textual content HOME to 741741 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for added assets.
