The funeral of Danilo Sulas, the homage of friends and the white coffin: «Died for a gesture of love»

A motorcyclist procession preceded the arrival of Danilo Sulas' coffin up to the Church of San Teodoro, where a few hours ago the whole town gathered for a last farewell to the twenty-year-old found dead in a well. Friends wanted to pay homage to him in their own way, with the roar of the engines that Danilo was a great fan of .

In the churchyard of Santa Teresa di Calcutta there were many wreaths of flowers that friends and acquaintances of the Sulas/Piredda family wanted to leave. All around a silent crowd, terrified by grief, awaited the arrival of the white coffin that the family had chosen for Danilo .

Perhaps this is the case for all parents who outlive their children, they still considered them children, and that white coffin seemed to be the emblem of an unbearably premature death.

" We are all here because death, even if painful, sudden and white, just like this coffin, is not the final word ", said the parish priest of San Teodoro, Don Alessandro Cossu, during mass. “Words cannot explain such a tragedy – he continues in the homily – there are no human words for this. Danilo was there with his little dog and made a gesture that only those who love animals can do. A gesture of love that cost him his life ».

And on the tragic chain of events that led to the death of Danilo Sulas, who threw himself into the well to save his dog who was perhaps chasing a kitten, new details emerge. In addition to the ladder found at the bottom of the cavity with which the young man desperately attempted to climb up, it seems that his father Domenico too, seeing the animal floating, lowered another ladder .

That's how he realized that that pit had also swallowed his son and called for help. Don Cossu's words try to banish from everyone's mind the reconstruction of those last moments of Danilo's life. " Don't think about how it happened, about how much he suffered, just think about the gesture of love he made ".