Devastated and out of means, Suk Hui Kim of Los Angeles received a white note on her door from the coroner’s office on September 29th, 2021. Her only child, Reuben Cha, had been found dead on a beach in Eureka California.

 

Suk Hui Kim supported her son as a single mother as husband Mr. Cha Dong Keun had been shot by a robber at work when Reuben was only 3 years old. Since then she never married and only focused on raising Reuben, even getting him into a prestigious school, Robert Louis Stevenson Boarding School, on full scholarship. However, Reuben had dealt with the virulent disorder of schizophrenia since its onset while studying, again, on scholarship, at UCLA, in hopes of becoming a medical doctor. The progressively unstable nature of his disease caused him to drop out one year shy of graduation, leaving him homeless. Heartbroken and angry because of the lack of control over the fate of her once bright son, Suk Hui Kim could not convince her son to stay with her nor could she take care of him as she too is a sufferer of many chronic medical disorders. With grave misfortune, Ruben’s distorted whims took him to many places around the U.S until he ended up incapacitated on the beach.

 

Mental illness is a sad reality of life and one that has tormented the life of single-mother Suk Hui Kim son, and by default, herself as well. It is with great heartache, tears, and agony that this mother had to witness her son’s life deteriorate, and with even greater heartache that she could do nothing but by-stand as serious health conditions and low income tied her hands behind her back. Death has left a great sting on Suk Hui Kim but in many ways, death has also killed the constant debilitating worry for her homeless son. Only now she is left with a couple of photos of Reuben as a child and pity for the way he passed.

 

Please help Suk Hui Kim find some peace in her life by allowing her to be close and look after her son’s grave in Los Angeles. All donations will fund air transport of the body and a funeral service.

Please see  below links to an article published in the local news.
https://wildrivers.lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/sep/28/man-dies-after-being-swept-jetty-crescent-city-pol/

https://wildrivers.lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/oct/6/following-jetty-fatality-harbor-district-calls-bet/

Please see below links to an article published in the Korea Times, a newspaper that represents Koreans in America and prestigious newspaper in Korea. 
미주 한국일보에 나온 기사 링크입니다. 
http://www.koreatimes.com/article/20210930/1382897

http://www.koreatimes.com/article/20211007/1383912