“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. Known to loved ones as “Tommy,” the second-year student at Harvard Law School was remembered as an animal lover and passionate vegan devoted to helping others. “Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me,” said the note, signed: “All my love, Tommy.”

My illness won today,” his parents said in a Medium post.

In a note left for his family on New Year’s Eve, the day he died, Thomas Bloom Raskin wrote “Please forgive me. Jamie Raskin and his wife Sarah on Monday published a heart-wrenching tribute to their late son, confirming that the 25-year-old took his own life last week after a long battle with depression. NY1 anchor Ruschell Boone laid to rest in Brooklyn after cancer battle: ‘She’s my superhero’ Tony Award winner Michael McGrath dead at 65: stars pay tributeįormer NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir – who led historic decrease in crime – dead at 81

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