Tom passed away at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 8:31am. He died after a month-long hospitalization following a massive heart attack. Days before we had been informed that he was unlikely to recover but would remain indefinitely sustained by the machines that were supporting his life. Though he remained aware and responsive to us, it would seem that he made his own choice and took what the doctors described as 'an inexplicable turn for the worse' on the evening of Thursday August 2. We later learned that at 7:11pm that evening, his cousin, Kristen had given birth to a baby boy, Daniel Robert in Massachusetts.