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- Aug 18, 2024
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A story that makes us reflect on the need to decriminalize the crime of "Assisting suicide", which is increasingly decriminalized in Italy.
The story of a man who cut his wife's throat for love.
The sad path of the 87-year-old who killed his life partner and now fights against evil. "He had Alzheimer's: who would have taken care of him?". The director of the facility: "Tragedies of abandonment"
Florence, 25 July 2022 - "I feel guilty for what I did. But I also wanted to die together with her". These are the first words he said to the healthcare workers who welcomed him to the Hospice in Via delle Oblate, the care and palliative treatment facility for terminally ill patients. Words he repeats continuously, without finding peace. When it comes to desperation. But also loneliness, illness and love. Yes, he killed his wife. With a particularly bloody gesture, cutting her throat. It happened two weeks ago. He had tried, with every intention of succeeding, to repeat that macabre feat on himself. But he didn't make it. Yet listening to what in legal terms is called a murderer, the first word that comes to mind is love. Despite it all. A gesture of love and death. With the knife: the only weapon available. The eighty-seven year old who, after dedicating the last very tiring years of his life to caring for his wife, discovered that his tumor had started to move again. That the illness would soon take him away without knowing who to entrust with his companion for a long journey full of stumbles and scattered happiness. That beloved woman now deprived of her memory and much more by that demon Alzheimer's disease. If she didn't recognize him, he knew full well who she was. That was enough. Until he decided it was no longer possible to go on. That had to end there.
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The story of a man who cut his wife's throat for love.
The sad path of the 87-year-old who killed his life partner and now fights against evil. "He had Alzheimer's: who would have taken care of him?". The director of the facility: "Tragedies of abandonment"
Florence, 25 July 2022 - "I feel guilty for what I did. But I also wanted to die together with her". These are the first words he said to the healthcare workers who welcomed him to the Hospice in Via delle Oblate, the care and palliative treatment facility for terminally ill patients. Words he repeats continuously, without finding peace. When it comes to desperation. But also loneliness, illness and love. Yes, he killed his wife. With a particularly bloody gesture, cutting her throat. It happened two weeks ago. He had tried, with every intention of succeeding, to repeat that macabre feat on himself. But he didn't make it. Yet listening to what in legal terms is called a murderer, the first word that comes to mind is love. Despite it all. A gesture of love and death. With the knife: the only weapon available. The eighty-seven year old who, after dedicating the last very tiring years of his life to caring for his wife, discovered that his tumor had started to move again. That the illness would soon take him away without knowing who to entrust with his companion for a long journey full of stumbles and scattered happiness. That beloved woman now deprived of her memory and much more by that demon Alzheimer's disease. If she didn't recognize him, he knew full well who she was. That was enough. Until he decided it was no longer possible to go on. That had to end there.
Uccise la moglie, ora è all'hospice: "Volevo morire con lei"
Il triste percorso dell’87enne che ammazzò la compagna di una vita e ora lotta contro il male. "Aveva l’Alzheimer: chi se ne sarebbe preso cura?". Il direttore della struttura: "Tragedie dell’abbandono"
