“Why I Considered Committing Suicide”, President Joe Biden Recounts Emotional Incident

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By Abiola Olawale

US President Joe Biden has emotionally recounted how he contemplated committing suicide after a tragic event happened to him.

The President said he considered drowning himself in alcohol or jumping off a bridge after the death of his first wife and their 13-month-old daughter.

Biden made these revelations during an hour-long interview with radio personality Howard Stern, where they discussed various topics, including his personal life and the upcoming presidential election.

The president said the death of his first wife, Neilia Biden, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, was a tough event for him.

Biden told Stern: ‘’You don’t have to be crazy to commit suicide if you’ve been to the top of the mountain and you think you’ll never be there again.

“For a brief moment I thought maybe I’ll just go to Delaware Memorial Bridge and just jump, but I had two kids.”

The President also said after his wife’s death, he used to take out a bottle of scotch and plan to get drunk, but could never make himself do it.

“I don’t drink, that’s not a virtue. I just never drank. And, I used to sit there and think to myself, I’m just gonna take out a bottle of scotch.

“We always had liquor in the house, and I was gonna just drink it and get drunk, and I can never bring myself to do it,” he said.

The New Diplomat reports that Neilia and her three children, Naomi, Hunter, and Beau, were driving in rural Hockessin, Delaware, on December 18, 1972, when a tractor-trailer struck their vehicle.

The family was rushed to Wilmington General Hospital, where Neilia and Naomi were pronounced dead. However, Hunter and Beau survived after suffering serious injuries.

The heartbreaking incident occurred days after Joe Biden became US Senator-elect in Delaware.

Two weeks after the death of his wife and daughter, Biden was sworn into the US Senate at the hospital where his two boys were recovering.

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