Why it took 50 years for a woman to write her brother’s obituary
Two days after John Miltimore Wolff died, his name appeared at the bottom of a page inside The Washington Post under a five-word headline.What followed were two short sentences that described witnesses seeing Wolff, who was 28, running south on the William Howard Taft Bridge “when he placed both hands on the railing and fell to the ground below.”
“No one ever said to me, ‘This is not going to happen to you,’” Hartman, who is now 73 and works as a psychotherapist in Rockville, Md., told me Friday, the anniversary of her brother’s death. “I was left with this fear that I would be the next in line.” The death notice not only acknowledges Wolff’s mental health struggles; it addresses what he and his family experienced in painful detail. Hartman writes that over the next nine years, the family faced “many ups and downs, starts and stops, diagnoses and medications.”
“I hope people understand that mental illness is not an embarrassment,” she said. “We should all be able to discuss it.”
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