Re: Tatiana Kennedy demise (age 35):
Writing in the New Yorker about her diagnosis, Tatiana said that she 'could not believe' the doctors were talking about her when they said she would need chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
'I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn't sick. I didn't feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew,' she wrote. Tatiana said her parents and her siblings, Rose and Jack, supported her through months of grueling medical treatments.
'[My family has] held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it. This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day,' she wrote.
She also addressed the so-called 'Kennedy curse' in her essay, saying that she did not want to add 'a new tragedy' to her mother Caroline's life. 'For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,' Schlossberg wrote. 'Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family's life, and there's nothing I can do to stop it.'
Re: Her feelings about RFK Jr:
'I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government,' she wrote.
'I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15423143/JFK-granddaughter-Tatiana-Schlossberg-dies-cancer.html