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Jan 9, 2021 · On New Year's Eve, 25-year-old Tommy Raskin killed himself. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland talked with NPR about his son's life and the outpouring of tributes to him.
- Misunderstanding Depression
- 'Being There' Isn't Enough
- Illness Forces Your Hand
A friend sent me the Raskins’ message because she knows I’ve been an advocate for openness about not only mental illness — especially depression, which I also suffer from — but also the plague of suicides in this country, which took nearly 50,000 Americansin 2018. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, the annual suicide rate increas...
I, once, had to learn the limits of “being there” in the hardest way imaginable many years ago when I lost a friend to suicide. We had met at the University of California, Berkeley, when I was in the throes of depression and she had suffered what she understood to be a concussion. Her condition turned out to be much more serious than that; still it...
Another troubling discussionstarted on Tommy’s Facebook page underneath a post he had made 10 days before he died, encouraging Georgia voters to turn out in the Senate runoffs on Jan. 5. Someone couldn’t understand how he could die from suicide while looking to the future. A different friend replied that it made perfect sense to those with depressi...
Jan 1, 2021 · Thomas "Tommy" Raskin, the son of Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin, has died, the congressman's office said Thursday. He was 25.
Jan 1, 2021 · U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said his son has died. Raskin announced the death Thursday of Tommy Bloom Raskin, 25. In a statement released on Sunday, his parents said he battled...
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Jan 18, 2021 · Raskin, a second year student at Harvard Law School, died Dec. 31 at the age of 25. The cause of death was suicide after a long battle with depression, according to a family spokesperson.
Jan 4, 2022 · In a new memoir, the Democratic congressman recounts a year of loss and grief after the death of son Tommy — and a motivation to right the wrongs that occurred on Jan. 6.
Dec 31, 2020 · Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin announced the death of their son, Thomas Bloom Raskin, at the family’s Takoma Park home Thursday morning. Tommy Raskin, 25, was a graduate of...
