Maureen Banavige doesn’t know why her son, Ronan, ended his life in his dorm room during his first year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in fall 2021.
Maybe it was the isolation of the university’s strict COVID protocols. Maybe it was the stress of his fast-paced computer coding course. Maybe it was something else. Whatever it was, she didn’t see it coming.
“He struggled with anxiety and depression in high school, but we did many interventions and we thought he was in a pretty good spot going into college,” Banavige said of her son, whom she remembers as a “kind and gentle spirit” with a quirky sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and an affinity for Chinese tea.
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