So did mi amigo/my friend just now when I showed it to him before posting this article. Some people have said that in one (or more) of the obituaries for Tommy Raskin that the family seemed to go out of their way to portray Tommy as straight and how he “loved the ladies.” (roll eyes) I saw a Queer boy when I saw Tommy’s picture, and my gaydar is extremely reliable. As I remember, she committed suicide about 6 weeks after his death. Mi amigo/my friend did, but all she told him was that her husband had died and she was dealing with the estate. I didn’t, but I had not talked with her at all about it. No one that I’m aware of expected her to commit suicide.
She didn’t want to live anymore without him. I knew a woman - an acquaintance of mine - a few years back who committed suicide after her husband died of cancer. In Tommy’s case his depression seems to have been permanent and not temporary since he suffered with depression much of his life. I’ve worked in suicide prevention and we were trained that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Terribly sad to read that, and I’m sure his death has destroyed their family, and it will never be the same. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. He left a suicide/farewell note which said, “Please forgive me. Tommy, his son, was described by his parents as a guy 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.” He was also an avid vegan, animal lover and writer. Did he do that because he believed Queers should have the same rights as breeders, or did he have a Queer member of his family, or both? He fought for gay marriage as a member of the House. Representative Raskin of Montgomery County - and a former constitutional law professor - has a rather progressive record in the House of Representatives. Was that the reason, or part of the reason for him committing suicide on 31 December 2020? His father is Representative Jamie Raskin (from the US state of Maryland) in the House of Representatives of the US Congress in the District of Columbia.
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