A chilling story, the one we are talking about today, with dark and not yet well-defined outlines, on which the Catania prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "incitement to suicide". It's the story of Alessandra Giordano from Paternò, died on 27 last March, in a house in the industrial area of Pfäffikon, near Zurich. This is the Swiss clinic Dignitas, where euthanasia has been practiced for many years and which also saw the passage of DJ Fabo, arrived there and never returned.
Alessandra, However, he did not have unbearable suffering due to some terrible disease: she was depressed and had been suffering from chronic neuralgia for some time: Eagle syndrome. This may have been enough to induce her to flee her homeland, without even informing his family and setting off in total solitude to make such a dramatic and definitive choice for his life? This is what the Catania prosecutor's office is investigating, as the newspaper reveals The Truth, Why the suspicion that someone may have acted on his altered conscience is really strong. Her brother talks about her on The Truth descrivendola come «a strong woman, determined, confident, enterprising, solar. He worked in primary school. She went to class regularly until two years ago. He loved his job. His students and grandchildren were his life. And she also dreamed of a family and children».
However, the beginning of his psychological decline began in 2008, after his father's death, event that makes her sink into depression so much so that she abandons her job as a teacher, limiting themselves to spending the days in bed. With this certainly not "lucid" state of mind he begins to entertain the thought of assisted death. An unthinkable idea for his family members with whom he talks about it. As long as the 25 last March an acquaintance meets, by chance, Alessandra at Catania airport and informs her family. After numerous unsuccessful phone calls, her family understands that she has flown to Switzerland and tries to bring her home. The Foreign Ministry is alerted, his brother Massimiliano sends a warning to Dignitas, attaching the latest medical certificate: «My sister is not in her mental capacity, at present, to make such a decision. We reserve, should you proceed, to take legal action» but receives no response. Then he personally goes to Switzerland.
At Zurich airport, at the suggestion of the Farnesina, he turns to the local police who promise to contact the Dignitas, but this does not happen. A final phone call from Alessandra to her family confirms the inexorability of her decision: even the clinic bill, of approx 10.000 euro, it has already been paid. His passage from life and death is "planned" in soli 3 days: I'll arrive on Monday 25 March, hotel accommodation on Tuesday, I meet the doctor on Wednesday and arrive at the death clinic on Thursday, never to return. The way in which relatives are "notified" is disconcerting, after doing everything possible to save her: In fact, his ashes will be delivered to the family with a farewell note. Read More