No parent should have to bury their child. However, these are emotional scenes from Delaware yesterday as Beau Biden, the son of US vice president Joe Biden, was laid to rest. US President Barack Obama gave a speech at the funeral of the 46-year-old, who died eight days ago from brain cancer.
“He did in 46 years what most of us couldn’t do in 146,” Obama told mourners. “He left nothing in the tank.”VP Joe Biden led the mourners at a Catholic church in Delaware for the funeral service which was
attended by his family, politicians, military leaders, and other mourners. According to reports, he did not speak at the funeral.
For the US vice president, the death marked yet another untimely loss. He lost his wife and his infant daughter in a car crash in 1972, which left Beau and his brother Hunter badly injured.
Beau Biden, who was the oldest son of the vice president, had been diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago. He had served for two terms as the attorney general for Delaware, and had been planning to run for governor of the state. He had also served in Iraq.
“He was our protector, our mediator, the captain of our lives,” his sister Ashley Biden told mourners, describing how she would accompany her brother to his chemotherapy treatments.Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin performed the group’s song ‘Till Kingdom Come’ during the service. The White House said that Beau Biden had been a Coldplay fan and that Martin had offered to sing when he found out. May his soul rest in perfect peace.
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