Henry Kopple Obituary, Death – The mother was horrified to learn of her son’s untimely death in an accident not long after she had dropped him off at college in 2022. Elizabeth Kopple wrote a heartfelt post for HuffPost about saying goodbye to her 18-year-old son Henry before he headed off to his first year of college, a time that should have been filled with joy for the whole family. Kopple remarked that despite overcoming ADHD, anxiety, and friendship issues, the boy had made it to the top.
He developed his self-assurance through extracurricular activities including cross-country running, acting, and debating as he grew older. A week later, at orientation at their unnamed university, Elizabeth ran into Henry on campus as he was out walking with several of his fellow freshmen. Henry brought his mom to meet some of his friends’ parents and they ate lunch together. Elizabeth had to fly back home after only a few days because the family ritual of sending off the oldest child to college was complete.
When Elizabeth wrote, “I placed my hands around Henry’s middle, pressed my right cheek to his chest, closed my eyes, and squeezed,” she described how she had clasped his center with her own. “At that particular moment, I was loving all of my son—the chubby infant, the inquisitive toddler, the goofy seventh student in braces, the ravenous adolescent, and every other iteration I knew and had known before…I said goodbye with an embrace, Henry’s trademark gesture, and headed to the airport. A few days later, on his first day of school, Henry was killed when the building he was in fell. A further two students were hurt.
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