Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, lifeless at 35 | EUROtoday
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Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, died Tuesday, aged 35.
The JFK Library Foundation introduced Schlossberg’s dying in a web based assertion Tuesday afternoon, simply weeks after she shared the information of her terminal most cancers analysis.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the assertion reads.
The submit was signed “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Schlossberg is survived by her husband, George Moran, and their two youngsters. She’s additionally survived by her mother and father, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, and her siblings, Jack Schlossberg and Rose Schlossberg.
Schlossberg revealed she was identified with a uncommon kind of acute myeloid leukemia, a blood most cancers, in a New Yorker essay printed final month. In the essay, the 35-year-old recounted how she couldn’t imagine she had acquired the terminal analysis.
“I did not—could not—believe that they were talking about me. I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick,” she wrote.
Schlossberg stated that she was identified shortly after giving beginning to her daughter final 12 months, when docs observed her white blood cell depend was elevated. Her son was two years previous on the time.
“During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me,” she wrote.
In her essay, Schlossberg additionally criticized her cousin, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She decried his cuts to analysis funding, significantly for “mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers.”
Maria Shriver, a journalist and the previous first girl of California, praised her cousin’s New Yorker essay final month.
“If you can only read one thing today, please make/take the time for this extraordinary piece of writing by my cousin Caroline’s extraordinary daughter Tatiana,” Shriver wrote. “Tatiana is a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend.”
Schlossberg labored as an environmental journalist, specializing in the impacts of local weather change. She printed a number of tales in The Washington Posttogether with an investigation into the impacts of local weather change on cranberry farmers.
In 2019, Schlossberg additionally printed Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have.
The work earned her the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, with the judges writing that her readers “will find solace, humor and a route to feeling empowered with possibilities for positive change, rather than drained by an accumulation of bad news.”
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tatiana-schlossberg-kennedy-terminal-cancer-b2892365.html