Saoirse Kennedy-Hill(1997-2019)
- Actress
Saoirse Hill, a former vice president of College Democrats at Boston College, Saoirse was passionately moved by the causes of human rights and women's empowerment and found great joy in volunteer work, working alongside indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico. Daughter of Paul Hill and Courtney Kennedy, the fifth of 11 children of Ethel Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
Hill, who majored in communications, was a spokeswoman for awareness of depression and mental illness. In a 2016 article for The Deerfield Scroll, the student newspaper at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, Hill wrote that she attempted suicide before her junior year at the institution. "People talk about cancer freely; why is it so difficult to discuss the effects of depression, bi-polar, anxiety, or schizophrenic disorders?" she wrote. "Just because the illness may not be outwardly visible doesn't mean the person suffering from it isn't struggling.
Hill, who majored in communications, was a spokeswoman for awareness of depression and mental illness. In a 2016 article for The Deerfield Scroll, the student newspaper at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, Hill wrote that she attempted suicide before her junior year at the institution. "People talk about cancer freely; why is it so difficult to discuss the effects of depression, bi-polar, anxiety, or schizophrenic disorders?" she wrote. "Just because the illness may not be outwardly visible doesn't mean the person suffering from it isn't struggling.
