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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 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 · 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 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.
Jan 5, 2021 · Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, on Monday evening published a searing and loving tribute to their son, Thomas Bloom Raskin, who died at 25 on New Year’s Eve.
Jan 1, 2021 · Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., announced the loss of his 25-year-old son, Thomas Bloom Raskin, in a statement on Thursday, and said they are "demolished to be without him." “Tommy was pure magic....
