The final moments of Senator Ted Kennedy

'Everyone was very stoic in an Irish kind of way'

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The last moments of Senator Edward Kennedy were recalled today by Paul Hill, who is married to Robert Kennedy's daughter Courtney.

Hill said that as Kennedy lay dying, the last sound he would have heard would have been his grandchildren splashing in the waters of Nantucket Sound outside his Hyannis Port home.

Poignantly, Kennedy died in the same room where he sang "My Wild Irish Rose," to his mother Rose as she lay dying.

Belfast-born Hill said: "It was exactly how Teddy wanted it, the cries of the next generation of Kennedys playing happily where he had spent the best days of his life, sailing on the sound. I'm sure he could hear them. It was a fitting way to die.”

He said the family patriarch did not suffer.”He appeared comfortable and without pain. It was really a blessed leaving."

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