In an interview with a Boston TV station, the Kennedy family priest who was called last night to Ted Kennedy’s bedside, said the senator “was ready to go.”
“The truth is, he had expressed to his family that he did want to go. He did want to go to heaven. He did want to die and he did want to go. He was ready to go. There was a certain amount peace — a lot of peace, actually — in the family get-together last night. I couldn’t help but think that the world doesn’t know that part of the senator at all,” said the Rev. Patrick Tarrant, who was called to Kennedy’s home late Tuesday night.
Tarrant said Kennedy was “a man of quiet prayer” in his last few hours.
“He was there and very reverent. I wish the world had known that part of him, but that was his secret. It was like it was the secret of his power, to be involved in doing good for others and it was what, I believe, drove him,” Tarrant said.
