The siblings’ father, Ashok Rana, walked past mourners with hands folded and eyes glued to the pyre. Their mother stood at a side, still and stoic.“Let no one weep. He is in a happy place now. I am praying my son may depart in peace. Wherever he is born next, may he receive God’s blessings,” PTI quoted Ashok as saying.The family from Ghaziabad lost Harish as a 19-year-old engineering student who suffered a brain injury in 2013 after falling from the fourth floor of a building at Punjab University. He never regained consciousness.Based on a landmark Supreme Court order granting Harish’s plea for passive euthanasia, he had been moved to the palliative care unit of AIIMS earlier this month. Clinically assisted nutrition and hydration were withdrawn under medical supervision, supplemented with active pain management through his final days. The end came at 4.10pm Tuesday.UP Congress chief Ajai Rai and representatives of the Brahma Kumaris, a women-led spiritual organisation with which the family is associated, were among those who attended the cremation.As the flames dimmed and the mourners began to leave, Ashish stood rooted to the spot until his little niece ran up to her “Mamu” and clung to him.Harish continues to live in the shared pathos of that moment, and in the corneas and heart valves his family donated.