Yet another friend acknowledged that she had lost “every single game.“ Some admitted to losing “too many” Boggle games, and one friend estimated that she had lost 60 to 80 games over a nine-month period. Another friend, Tom Agger, said, “ Sometimes I would look at him and say that’s what I want to be when I grow up, which is such a crazy thing for someone his age to say.” Yet another friend called him “ the Michael Jordan of our generation.” “ He really, really cared about what you said,” said friend Sophie Clark. Arlene Bloom said her grandson was “ caring, devoted.” The idea for the drive-in memorial arose when Tommy’s sister, Tabitha, said she felt cheated that due to COVID-19, she could not hug those who shared her grief and missed out on in-person, comforting Shivah, the Jewish mourning ritual.įunny, sensitive, kind, good, gentle, illuminary, authentic, and positive were just some of the many attributes cited. Tommy Raskin, who died of suicide at the age of 25, was remembered by family, friends, and thousands of others gathered at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., or watching virtually on YouTube. Memorial Service and Celebration of the Life of Tommy Raskin He was a poet, an enthusiastic Boggle player, a vegan, a political person who cared about every person and animal in the world. He was a graduate of Amherst College and was attending Harvard Law School at the time of his death.
Tommy Raskin, who grew up in Takoma Park, lost his life to depression on Dec. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. He left a short note for his family, which read: “ Please forgive me.
On the last day of December 2020, 25-year-old Harvard law student Thomas Raskin died by suicide.
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