Italy: Old Woman Found Mummified at Her Table After Dying in 2019

This doesn’t seem like something that would happen in a properly functioning society.

I mean, this is a government that is telling us they care about us so much they are willing to completely destroy the entire economic and social order and remove all pretense of human freedom in order to protect us from the flu.

But there’s no one to check on an old lady no one’s heard from in three years?

The Guardian:

Italian police have discovered the mummified remains of a 70-year-old woman sitting at a table more than two years after she died, prompting calls for better care for older people in the country.

Marinella Beretta, who had no living relatives, was found in her house in Prestino near Lake Como in northern Italy. Police stumbled upon her remains when they made a house call during high winds in Lombardy, which risked uprooting neglected trees in her garden.

She had not been seen by neighbours for at least two and a half years, according to Italian media reports.

“What happened to Marinella Beretta in Como, the forgotten loneliness, hurts our consciences,” the family minister, Elena Bonetti, said on Facebook. “We have a duty, as a community that wants to remain united, to remember her life … no one must be left alone.”

Nearly 40% of over-75-year-olds in Italy live alone, according to a 2018 report by the national statistics institute. The same number also said they had neither relatives nor friends to turn to in case of need.

Beretta was “loneliness personified”, wrote the journalist Massimo Gramellini on the front page of the Corriere della Sera, Italy’s biggest-selling daily. “Many of us still have memories of the chaotic, branched families of peasant Italy. Instead, the modern family is reduced … People die alone. And we live alone, which is almost worse.”

Maybe instead of vague platitudes about “community,” you could just tell people to have more kids and fewer divorces?

No?

Well, okay then.