Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of the late John F. Kennedy, useless at 35

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Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one in all three grandchildren of the late U.S. president John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35.

Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, revealed she had terminal most cancers in a November 2025 essay in The New Yorker. A household assertion disclosing her loss of life was launched Tuesday on social media by the John F. Kennedy Library Basis.

"Our stunning Tatiana handed away this morning. She's going to at all times be in our hearts," the household's assertion mentioned. It didn't disclose a reason for loss of life or say the place she died.

Leukemia prognosis Schlossberg was recognized with acute myeloid leukemia in Might 2024 on the age of 34. After the start of her second little one, her physician seen her white blood cell rely was excessive. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a uncommon mutation, largely seen in older folks.

Within the New Yorker essay, "A Battle With My Blood," Schlossberg recounted going by rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants and taking part in scientific trials. Throughout the latest trial, she wrote, her physician informed her "he might maintain me alive for a 12 months, perhaps."

Schlossberg additionally criticized insurance policies pushed by her mom's cousin, U.S. Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., within the essay, saying they may harm most cancers sufferers like her. Her mom had urged senators to reject his affirmation.

"As I spent increasingly more of my life below the care of docs, nurses, and researchers striving to enhance the lives of others, I watched as Bobby minimize almost a half billion {dollars} for analysis into mRNA vaccines, know-how that might be used in opposition to sure cancers," the essay mentioned.

Schlossberg had labored as a reporter masking local weather change and the setting for the New York Occasions' science part. Her 2019 e book Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impression You Do not Know You Have gained the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson setting e book award in 2020.

Schlossberg wrote within the New Yorker essay that she feared her daughter and son would not keep in mind her. She mentioned she felt cheated and unhappy that she would not get to maintain residing "the fantastic life" she had together with her husband, George Moran.

Whereas her mother and father and siblings, Rose and Jack, tried to cover their ache from her, she mentioned she felt it day by day.

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Schlossberg's mom Caroline was 5 years outdated when her father was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. She was 10 when her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968 whereas he was operating for president.

Caroline's brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in 1999 when the single-engine aircraft he was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, close to Martha's Winery, Mass. His spouse, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, additionally died within the crash.