Yes.
1- Joe Biden survived a brain aneurysm
In the winter of 1988 Joe Biden...began to experience neck pain...Eventually, Joe Biden went to the hospital.
Turns out Biden had whats called a berry aneurysm at the base of his brain that was leaking blood into the space between his brain and the brains protective lining. An emergency, six-hour surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center took care of the problem and in this regard Joe Biden lucked out, since most people with a brain aneurysm get no advanced warning — it simply bursts, resulting in paralysis, mental impairment, coma or death.
Read more: http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/special_feature_200/215_special_feature.html#ixzz24lAtvz6A
Thanks for the information. My father had a massive stroke without warning earlier this year and died about 5 days later.