MA - Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22, granddaughter of RFK, dies at Kennedy Compound, Cape Cod, 1 Aug 2019

[Gardenista]

• Paramedics responded to a call about a possible overdose at a home on the Kennedy Compound in Cape Cod on Thursday afternoon

• The patient was in cardiac arrest when emergency crews arrived on the scene

• She was taken to Cape Cod Hospital, where she was pronounced dead

• The incident took place at a home belonging to Ethel Kennedy, the 91-year-old widow of late US Senator Robert F Kennedy

• The Kennedy Compound consists of multiple homes across six acres of waterfront property on Cape Code along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port

Young woman dies after paramedics were called to Kennedy Compound for a 'possible overdose' | Daily Mail Online

 

[Gardenista]

DA Investigating Death At Kennedy Compound

 

[Gardenista]

 

[Gardenista]

Kennedy Compound Death: Woman Dies of Possible Overdose | Heavy.com

 

[beatrixpotter]

Soo much drug use everywhere...

 

[borndem]

I just saw it announced on MSNBC by Lawrence O'Donnell.
I don't see anything yet on NYT or WaPo, but still looking.
How sad for a 22 year old young woman.

 

[borndem]

From NYTimes:

BOSTON — A granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy died on Thursday afternoon after suffering an apparent overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., according to two people close to the family.

The young woman, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22, was the daughter of Courtney Kennedy Hill. She was at the compound, where her grandmother, Ethel Kennedy, lives, when emergency responders were called on Thursday afternoon, the family friends said. She was taken to Cape Code Hospital in Hyannis, where she was pronounced dead.

Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy Dies After Overdose at Family’s Compound

 

[Gardenista]

From NYTimes:


Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy Dies After Overdose at Family’s Compound

OMG, so sad!

 

[Gardenista]

Before enrolling in Boston College, where she was a communication major and vice president of the College Democrats, Ms. Kennedy Hill wrote about her struggles with depression and mental illness for the student newspaper at Deerfield Academy, a private preparatory school in Massachusetts, in 2016. Her depression, she wrote, “took root in the beginning of my middle school years and will be with me for the rest of my life.” She described “deep bouts of sadness that felt like a heavy boulder on my chest.”

Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy Dies After Overdose at Family’s Compound

 

[PastTense]

Heavy.com information on Saoirse:
Saoirse Kennedy Hill: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Anyone see any mention of what the drug was?

 

[borndem]

Heavy.com information on Saoirse:
Saoirse Kennedy Hill: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Anyone see any mention of what the drug was?

IMO, I don't think it will be publicized -- there is absolutely no hint of ill-will or worse towards this young woman, etc., so IMO the probable autopsy and medical tox screen will probably be the only investigative part of this sad event. The medical investigation will probably be finished very soon, and it will be kept private, IMO.
Another promising young person lost to those who love her and lost to the world at large.
Prayers for her family to have the strength and faith to get through this are my thoughts for all of them, and for any other family who has faced this sadness and loss.

 

[Seattle1]

Granddaughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy dead; death at Kennedy compound investigated

Saoirse Kennedy Hill, one of Robert and Ethel Kennedy's 35 grandchildren, has died, the Kennedy family said Thursday night after police said they were investigating a death at the family's compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

The Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office said Barnstable police responded on Thursday to a residence on Marchant Avenue in Hyannis Port for a reported unattended death. The three mansions that make up the Kennedy compound line Marchant Avenue along Nantucket Sound

[...]

Thursday night, the Kennedy family said in a statement that Hill, 22, was dead, quoting Ethel Kennedy, 91, as saying, "The world is a little less beautiful today."

The New York Times, citing two family members, reported that Hill died of an apparent drug overdose. NBC News has not confirmed the report.

[...]

Saoirse Hill, a former vice president of College Democrats at Boston College, was "a gifted student, the college said in a statement " late Thursday, saying she was on track to graduate next year.

[...]

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.

 

[oceanstarryeyes]

Granddaughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy dead; death at Kennedy compound investigated

Saoirse Kennedy Hill, one of Robert and Ethel Kennedy's 35 grandchildren, has died, the Kennedy family said Thursday night after police said they were investigating a death at the family's compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

The Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office said Barnstable police responded on Thursday to a residence on Marchant Avenue in Hyannis Port for a reported unattended death. The three mansions that make up the Kennedy compound line Marchant Avenue along Nantucket Sound

[...]

Thursday night, the Kennedy family said in a statement that Hill, 22, was dead, quoting Ethel Kennedy, 91, as saying, "The world is a little less beautiful today."

The New York Times, citing two family members, reported that Hill died of an apparent drug overdose. NBC News has not confirmed the report.

[...]

Saoirse Hill, a former vice president of College Democrats at Boston College, was "a gifted student, the college said in a statement " late Thursday, saying she was on track to graduate next year.

[...]

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.

“Two weeks before my junior year began, however, my friend came back and planned to stay. My sense of well-being was already compromised, and I totally lost it after someone I knew and loved broke serious sexual boundaries with me. I did the worst thing a victim can do, and I pretended it hadn’t happened. This all became too much, and I attempted to take my own life.”

 

[Kittybunny]

Heavy.com information on Saoirse:
Saoirse Kennedy Hill: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Anyone see any mention of what the drug was?

I've been watching the news this morning, so sad. No mention and I'm sure toxicology will be done before they would ever reveal that, but I would put my money on opiates.

 

[PastTense]

Heavy.com has some information on her father:

"Paul Hill is an Irishman who was wrongfully convicted for Irish Republican Army bombings and the murder of an ex-soldier, spending 15 years in prison for crimes he didn’t commit.

He is one of what is called the “Guildford Four.” The others were Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson. Paul Michael Hill is also the former husband of Robert F. Kennedy’s fifth daughter, Courtney Kennedy, with whom he had a daughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old RFK granddaughter who died of a possible overdose at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port on August 1, 2019."
Paul Hill: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

 

[PaulR]

Many ODs are actually suicide.

 

[PrairieWind]

Many ODs are actually suicide.

We will probably never know. She apparently battled depression and mental health issues for a while and had developed a heroin problem. So, accident or suicide? Unless there was a note, its hard to say. Tragic. That family sure has more than its share of tragic deaths.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

There was "Breaking News" during last evening's NBC report with Lester Holt. At the time, details were sketchy and all that was said is that there was a medical emergency at the Kennedy Compound. I didn't know who the victim was or what had happened until this morning. Sad that the Kennedy family must endure yet another tragic death

 

[PastTense]

Kennedy Curse? Saoirse Kennedy Hill’s Death Is But the Latest
"The death of Robert F. Kennedy’s 22-year-old granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill has brought back discussion of the so-called Kennedy Curse.

That’s the term given to the series of tragedies that have befallen the American political dynasty. Rose Kennedy, the family matriarch, once famously said, “To those to whom much is given, much is expected.” The Kennedy family soared to great heights, but with those heights have come a number of calamities.

After Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, his brother, Ted, spoke about the possibility of a curse, saying, “some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.”

Here’s a list of the Kennedy family tragedies:"
Kennedy Curse? Saoirse Kennedy Hill’s Death Is the Latest | Heavy.com

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Per live report on CNN minutes ago, autopsy has been completed. No signs of trauma to body other than those deemed to be attempts to revive. Toxicology reports needed to determine cause of death. Prayers for the Kennedy family...