Courage in the Final Chapter
Tatiana’s final public act was her New Yorker essay, a piece of writing that David Remnick described as “the most honest imaginable.” In it, she grappled with the surreal experience of facing a terminal prognosis while caring for a newborn. “I wasn’t sick,” she wrote, recounting how she had swum a mile the day before delivery. “I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.”
The funeral’s location at St. Ignatius Loyola added a layer of historical resonance; it is the same sanctuary where the family gathered 32 years ago for the funeral of her grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
