Unusual: they find the body of an old Italian woman on a chair two years after her death

The death of a 70-year-old woman, whose body was discovered mummified in a chair more than two years after her death, this week moved Italyreviving the debate on the loneliness of the elderly.

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The neighbors haven’t seen her for at least two years and a half, according to the local press.

The mummified remains of the old woman They were discovered by the police, who went to the scene after being alerted to the danger of falling trees in their garden.

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“What happened to Marinella Beretta in Como, the loneliness, the oblivion, hurts our consciences,” the Minister for the Family, Elena Bonetti, reacted on Facebook on Monday.

“A community that wants to be united has a duty to remember life. We must stop limiting our horizons to the private sphere and rebuild the ties that bind us (…) No one should be left alone, ”she wrote.

In Italy, almost 40% of people over the age of 75 years They live alone, according to a 2018 report from the National Institute of Statistics (Istat).

That same percentage of people do not have relatives or friends to turn to in case of need.

Marinella Beretta was the “incarnation of loneliness,” columnist Massimo Gramellini wrote on the front page of the daily Il Corriere della Sera, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Italy, on Tuesday.

“Many of us still have memories of the large families of rural Italy. Now, the modern family has shrunk (…) People die alone. And we live alone, which is almost worse.

Beretta’s neighbors, who had not seen her since September 2019, thought she had moved because of the covid-19 pandemic, which hit Italy in early 2020. Police found nothing in the house that might suggest a suspicious death. . The city of Prestino will pay the burial costs.

“The mysterious invisible life of Marinella behind the closed gate of her house leaves us with a terrible lesson. The great sadness is not that they did not realize her death. It is that they did not realize that she was alive, ”said the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero.

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Source: Elcomercio

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