ONE FOR YOU OVIDIO

Such sad news this morning from Italy, and I am left thinking how many more people around the world are left in a similar situation living on their own!!
Italian woman found dead at her kitchen table by local fire fighters 2 years after she was last seen by neighbours in 2019.

The fire fighters only went to the address following a tree falling down onto the house after high winds and found her dead.

The death of Marinella Beretta was discovered in her home in Prestino, near Lake Como in Lombardy has prompted calls in Italy for better care for older people.
Locals had assumed she had moved away at the start of COVID.
Her cause of death is unknown but based on the level of decay, she is believed to have died in late 2019.

I have a link tied to all words BERETTA now wondering if she was part of that famous family who came from around the lake!!
So sad............loneliness is a tragic state of affairs in any community!

How true, Gil…
Lonelyness is the new hell for many people, especially elder ones.
It keeps happening, but two years is such a long time.
Concerning the name, I don’t think she can be related in some way to the arms factory owners.
They are from Gardone Valtrompia, close to the Garda Lake. She was from the zone of Como, on the western arm of the Lago di Como.
Very far.
Beretta is a fairly common name in the whole area between Como and Brescia.

In some cases sad as it is the children have passed before the parent and with other relatives perhaps far away or they too have gone then it leaves a person on their own which in life is a sad situation to be in I know from experience that Italians look after their families very well but in this case something was amiss.
In our society today we have lost the values and principles of days gone by I remember well you knew everyone on the surrounding streets and had many a conversation over the back, side or front fence, now days people would rather leave you in the street than become involved as they hurry along in their own bubble of a world.

Like Ovidio I travelled allot in our state on jobs and went to sites that had 3-4000 people in both my trades as a crane operator then safety advisor you meet copious amounts of people from all walks of life and they all had a story to tell.
I've met a Merc who went to Rhodesia (He had some stories) he gave me a green lacquered steel cased AK round saying it was like that as you don't want things that glint in the sun like an ejecting round also the claymores they used were very effective.
Another was an engineer who had escaped from Syria, he was amazed at the land size of our state "It's just so big" he also said there was always gunfire or stuff happening there it was not safe for a family.
We have for the last 25 years sponsored a child from Uganda through world vision its not much but they are so poor there we like to think we make a difference for one young persons life who knows they may be the next Nelson Mandela.

It is such a tragedy that the elderly lady in this story died alone with no one to comfort her in her passing or albeit try and save her life, one can only say now that her soul is at peace and she is with the ones that loved her in this life. RIP

It was at a time when COVID was the scarry realism of lfe. So many people made assumptions, that if there was answer or movement, they must have gone away. Surely to Christ, someone spoke to this old lady on a regular basis, and would have known if she intended to go away...........ie "could you keep an eye out please". Something has clearly gone wrong here, hope to have a conclusion to it in the coming days.......did she die of COVID?

She has died in late 2019 apparently. Before the Covid craze...

This is such a sad piece of news.

I agree it is a sad state of affairs but stand by my observation of the new generations V's our old generation & old world values.
Rumour has it the next generation (XYZBA?) will have only 4 digits on each hand with the thumb being 150mm long so it can swipe & use the I-phone - I-Pad or X-Box!
As Ned Kelly said for his last words "Such is Life."

At least on this site there are copious amounts of old world values something so sadly lacking in todays plastic world full of plastic people, I remember a saying an old farmer told me when I was working up North as a farmhand.
"In days of old we had buildings of wood and men of steel, today we have buildings of steel and men of wood."

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I remember well you knew everyone on the surrounding streets and had many a conversation over the back, side or front fence, now days people would rather leave you in the street than become involved as they hurry along in their own bubble of a world.

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I've lived in the same house since the 1960's and we use to know almost everyone in our street but now I only know 3 or 4 people.

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Rumour has it the next generation (XYZBA?) will have only 4 digits on each hand with the thumb being 150mm long so it can swipe & use the I-phone - I-Pad or X-Box!

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It won't be long before we are all being "asked" to be "chipped" either by our employers or the state. My response to being "asked to comply" is likely to include "stick it where the sun never shines".

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Originally Posted by Flying10uk

I've lived in the same house since the 1960's and we use to know almost everyone in our street but now I only know 3 or 4 people.

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It won't be long before we are all being "asked" to be "chipped" either by our employers or the state. My response to being "asked to comply" is likely to include "stick it where the sun never shines".

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Same for me.

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Originally Posted by Flying10uk

It won't be long before we are all being "asked" to be "chipped" either by our employers or the state. My response to being "asked to comply" is likely to include "stick it where the sun never shines".

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I think most employers and governments would find your idea of a suppository version quite ingenious. Careful what you ask for! Haha

Nah that would be a bummer!!:)