Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. and his wife, Sarah, a former deputy secretary of Treasury, released 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, committed vegan and moral philosophy devotee. It also speaks to his dedication of serving others during his young life, from his participation in Montgomery Blair High School’s tutoring program, where he mentored his peers in English and math, to becoming a teaching assistant at Harvard University.
“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 in a Medium post.
The obituary explains that Raskin was “tortured” by a “blindingly painful and merciless ‘disease called depression,’” and that, despite a strong support network of loving family, friends, and doctors, “the pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable” for the “young man of surpassing promise to our broken world.”
What did he know about the Clinton’s?
So sorry for your loss. May your son rest in peace
Obviously born into a mentally unstable/ill family.