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| Julie Burchill mourns son, Jack, who killed himself this week | Julie Burchill mourns son, Jack, who killed himself this week |
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| The writer and campaigner Julie Burchill has paid tribute to her son Jack, who died earlier this week. | The writer and campaigner Julie Burchill has paid tribute to her son Jack, who died earlier this week. |
| Burchill urged others to “look after the people you love” after she revealed in a post on her publicly accessible Facebook page that her son had taken his own life. She asked to be left alone to grieve his death. | Burchill urged others to “look after the people you love” after she revealed in a post on her publicly accessible Facebook page that her son had taken his own life. She asked to be left alone to grieve his death. |
| Jack Landesman, born in 1986, was Burchill’s son with her second husband, the writer Cosmo Landesman. She has an older son, Robert, with her first husband, writer Tony Parsons. | Jack Landesman, born in 1986, was Burchill’s son with her second husband, the writer Cosmo Landesman. She has an older son, Robert, with her first husband, writer Tony Parsons. |
| In a brief post, she wrote: | In a brief post, she wrote: |
| My beloved son Jack Landesman killed himself earlier this week. He is at peace now and in pain no longer and of course I don’t believe that life ends with death, so I am lucky. | My beloved son Jack Landesman killed himself earlier this week. He is at peace now and in pain no longer and of course I don’t believe that life ends with death, so I am lucky. |
| Look after the people you love, as I tried to and failed. Thank you for all your good wishes and offers of support, but I have my Dan, who was a wonderful stepfather to my poor boy for more than half of his life. | Look after the people you love, as I tried to and failed. Thank you for all your good wishes and offers of support, but I have my Dan, who was a wonderful stepfather to my poor boy for more than half of his life. |
| Burchill, who is now married to Daniel Raven, gently asked to be left alone to grieve. “The love of my friends is a wonderful source of fun in my life, but excuse me if I don’t need it right now. Always, Julie.” | Burchill, who is now married to Daniel Raven, gently asked to be left alone to grieve. “The love of my friends is a wonderful source of fun in my life, but excuse me if I don’t need it right now. Always, Julie.” |
| She posted two poems dedicated to Jack – one entitled Son was, she said, “written by the Russian Jewish poet Pavel Antokolsky, a year after the death of his 18-year-old son Lieutenant Vladimir Antokolovsky, killed in action on June 6th, 1942.” The other was a poem by William Blake. | She posted two poems dedicated to Jack – one entitled Son was, she said, “written by the Russian Jewish poet Pavel Antokolsky, a year after the death of his 18-year-old son Lieutenant Vladimir Antokolovsky, killed in action on June 6th, 1942.” The other was a poem by William Blake. |
| Jack, 29, who is understood to have been a bass guitarist in a band, had initially lived with his father following his parents’ divorce. In 2013, Burchill told Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that she had “fought very hard to get custody of him”, adding that he was living with her at the time of the interview. | |
| In a Jewish Chronicle article in 2008, she said: “I have two sons, one I don’t see and one who lives with me, for my sins. That’s Jack, who’s 22. He’s the apple of my eye, my Achilles heel.” | In a Jewish Chronicle article in 2008, she said: “I have two sons, one I don’t see and one who lives with me, for my sins. That’s Jack, who’s 22. He’s the apple of my eye, my Achilles heel.” |
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