Diana Zanin died at the age of 49 on Sunday night, and the rescuers who arrived in the ambulance that stopped in front of her house could do nothing other than note her extreme thinness and the signs of the disease.

"She was short of breath," is the report of the women gathered in the square in front of the Nuragus Town Hall, fifteen meters from her house and the small market she owned.

Today the shop gate is closed and someone left a jar of tiny chrysanthemums, while Diana's body was taken to Senorbì and rests in a cold room awaiting cremation.

Provided the green light is given, given that – following the mayor's reports of her refusal of necessary medical care and "possible psychological conditioning" – the Cagliari Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation.

"'You don't touch the body,' she said, and that was what she thought was right." Giuseppe, Diana's partner, speaks from beyond the gate of the market on Via Sant'Elia, in the courtyard that leads to the adjacent house where the woman lived with her elderly mother.

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