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Celebrating the Life of Brooks Marsh

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What's it like to lose your brother?

Today, I can tell you from firsthand experience.

Sibling relationships are rife with turmoil and mine is no different. Sometimes, such turmoil can last a day, week, years or a lifetime. And yet, no matter the causes of havoc in the relationships, they are never enough to fully sever the ties of kinship.

When I lost my Dad in my 20’s, I learned a valuable lesson: that my family’s culminating strength can overturn life’s immensely devastating and unforgiving verdicts.

I acknowledge that building my relationship with my brother took nearly a decade, the roots of envy, anger, and criticisms of each other’s individual successes run deep. I am fortunate to say that I had fully restored and elevated my valuable relationship him. Despite this achievement and knowing how little time I had left with him, I wished I had done it all sooner.

Life always keeps you busy, and your 20s are arguably one of the most difficult chapters to overcome: maintaining and finding friends, finding love, insecurity for educational attainment, job insecurity, discovering talents and interests, shaping your identity, reconciling existentialism and many more.

However, having held his cold hand in his death bed at 31 years old and surrounded by family, I can tell you with utmost certainty that those challenges are not an excuse to delay remedying family issues. In life’s unforgiving arithmetic, we are the sum of our choices. Our time is scarce and because of this we must always be willing to table our pursuit of arbitrary benchmarks of success, discard our underlying criticisms of each other and revel with the people most dear to us.

Brooks Stephens Marsh was 33 years old when he passed away from complications symptomatic of the common cold/flu. All his lab tests have completely ruled out COVID 19. As of 6/12/2020, modern medicine is still unable to determine the cause of death.

Brooks was immeasurably gifted. After our 31 years of rivalry, I admit I was second to him. Anything he ever pursued he excelled at. Together, with my younger brother Duke, we were the unstoppable Three Musketeers as my Dad frequently said.

Brooks consoled people he barely knew despite his lingering depression. He was a person who would find value and kindness in someone who felt they had none. He gifted his hard-earned assets to those in need despite his financial struggle. He was a person who never compromised his moral and ethical standard under any circumstances. I am lucky to share many memorable moments with him. There is no doubt that he is a hero’s hero.

I love him and I miss him.

I want the world to know, that no matter your age and how much you feel you have not done enough for yourself, your friends, your family or the world, you are still needed by someone, appreciated by many and loved by everyone.

Farewell my rival, my teammate, my friend, my dear brother.

Baron Siegfried Marsh
 
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My family’s plan is to bring Brooks’ remains from the United States to Philippines, where we can lay him to rest in our family grave. We will encounter several complications and administrative hurdles during this process due to the nature of the COVID19 pandemic and the transfer of care between the two countries.

We welcome any financial support in helping us achieve this goal.

I hope that if you had the time to read about my family, that you can learn from our misfortune, heed our message, and work towards enriching your life.
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  • Myles Stranzl
    • $50 
    • 4 yrs
  • Cindy Barker
    • $100 
    • 4 yrs
  • Janice King
    • $50 
    • 4 yrs
  • Ana Ortiz
    • $60 
    • 4 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $50 
    • 4 yrs
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Baron Marsh
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Rosemont, CA

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