His will has been done. And that of his family members. Andrea Manca, a 58-year-old former trade unionist from Solarussa, died: the machines that kept him alive, but in a vegetative state for two years, were detached and his heart stopped beating in the afternoon at the Angela Nonnis Hospice in Oristano .

It was he, when he still had the faculties, who defined the state in which he found himself as "non-life".

It all started in the summer of two years ago, when the Covid, which was raging at the time, hit Andrea Manca. On July 22, 2021, a cardiac arrest had taken over which quickly led the trade unionist to a vegetative state and total dependence on machinery. After long hospital stays, he was admitted to the RSA of Milis.

L'Hospice di Oristano e, nel tondo, Andrea Manca (L'Unione Sarda)
L'Hospice di Oristano e, nel tondo, Andrea Manca (L'Unione Sarda)
L'Hospice di Oristano e, nel tondo, Andrea Manca (L'Unione Sarda)

In order to comply with the will, always declared by Andrea, his brother Alessandro, support administrator, had asked the judge to interrupt the medical treatments (based on law 219 of 2017 on informed consent and advance treatment provisions).

The definitive answer came a week ago, when the judge Gabriele Bordiga authorized the interruption of medical treatments. Today the epilogue, the one hoped for by Andrea Manca.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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