All my love, Tommy.'”īaltimore Sun reporter Jeff Barker contributed to this article. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. His son had long struggled with severe depression, he said. “He left us this farewell note on New Year’s Eve day: ‘Please forgive me. Raskin’s family had just buried his son, who died by suicide on New Year’s Eve, last Tuesday. In the tribute, the Raskins described their son’s battle with depression and said that despite doctors, a loving family and numerous friends who adored him, the pain became too “overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable.” Last fall, he started working as a teacher’s assistant and gave away about half his salary to help purchase mosquito nets with global charities to help save people with malaria, his family said, adding that he made individual donations in his students’ names after the semester was over to charities that targeted global hunger. In 2019, he went to Harvard Law School, where he pushed fellow students to engage with social problems, and he spent last summer working as an associate at Mercy for Animals, where he found a “knack for actual lawyering,” his family said. Tommy graduated from Montgomery Blair High School, then Amherst College, where he majored in history and helped lead the Amherst Political Union, won the Kellogg Prize for public speaking, created and performed one-act plays with his social dorm mates, and wrote a senior thesis on the intellectual history of the animal rights movement. He was also an avid vegan, animal lover and writer. Sandwiched between two sisters as the middle child, Tommy was described by his parents as someone whose “irrepressible love of freedom and strong libertarian impulses made him a skeptic of all institutional bureaucracy and a daring outspoken defender of all outcasts and kids in trouble.” Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Home Page Close Menu
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