meow.
Posted on 12/04/2002 6:53:04 PM PST by yonif
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian man who packed his bags 44 years ago and told friends he was leaving for America was found dead inside one of the walls of his home.
An American woman who recently bought the house near Lucca in northern Tuscany discovered the body Tuesday as she was carrying out renovations, police said.
Inside a thick wall in the cellar the woman found human remains, two packed suitcases, a trowel and other equipment to make a wall, a rusted rifle and a bottle with a suicide note.
The note, on paper headed with the name Nemo Cianelli, explained that the man had discovered he had an incurable disease and had decided to kill himself. He said he had invented the tale of going to America to avoid upsetting his family.
Local newspapers reported in 1958 that Cianelli was missing, and speculated that he might have gone to America, but after a period of rumor and mystery, the story was forgotten.
Police said it appeared Cianelli had packed his suitcases, written the suicide note, built a wall up around himself and then shot himself.
Did they find a partially consumed cask of Amontillado in there with him?
sorry . . . couldn't help myself . . .
They both, Svidrigaïlov and Achilles, stared at each other for a few minutes without speaking. At last it struck Achilles as irregular for a man not drunk to be standing three steps from him, staring and not saying a word.“What do you want here?” he said, without moving or changing his position.
“Nothing, brother, good morning,” answered Svidrigaïlov.
“This isn’t the place.”
“I am going to foreign parts, brother.”
“To foreign parts?”
“To America.”
“America.”
Svidrigaïlov took out the revolver and cocked it. Achilles raised his eyebrows.
“I say, this is not the place for such jokes!”
“Why shouldn’t it be the place?”
“Because it isn’t.”
“Well, brother, I don’t mind that. It’s a good place. When you are asked, you just say he was going, he said, to America.”
He put the revolver to his right temple.
“You can’t do it here, it’s not the place,” cried Achilles, rousing himself, his eyes growing bigger and bigger.
Svidrigaïlov pulled the trigger.
-- Crime and Punishment.
Quite creative also.
If this guy's story is true it really was a selfless act of kindness.
sorry...couldn't help it either...
An ill stroke of Fortunato, to be sure...
But Montressor will do that... nevermore.
I agree. Suicide punishes the living. As much as I oppose suicide, this man managed to invent a way to spare his family the grief of both his suicide and the illness he would have had to endure. Maybe God has some kind of waiver for those who act out of consideration for others...
meow.
Not at all. Suicide is a sin against hope.
I wonder how many times the doctor's office tried to contact him, to tell him about the mix-up on the lab tests.
LOL! (I shouldn't laugh though, it has happened to me! Nothing so fraught as a mistaken death sentence (just somebody else's cholesterol count), but mixups do occur.)
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
:^)
Just carrying on a conversation, I asked if he ever had anyone wake up. To my surprise he said yes, just a couple of weeks ago we had one come to. They had an ambulance take him to the hospital where he did die for good a few days later.
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