Woman dies after being in coma for 31 years

Italian Miriam Visintin crashed her car into a pole and suffered brain damage on Christmas Eve 1991. Thirty-one years later, she died of cardiac arrest in the hospital, her husband said.

The woman, originally from Rize in Veneto, died on May 10 at the San Bassiano hospital, where she was taken two months ago due to fluid in her lungs. She has been in a coma since she crashed her Fiat Panda at Casoni di Mussolente on Christmas Eve 1991, leaving her with brain damage. Her husband, a model of devotion, Angelo Farina said after her death from cardiac arrest: “Finally, she will rest in peace. Finally, she will be there in heaven. We had only been married for a year and a half when the tragedy struck. We were so young and dreamed of many things … But fate dealt her a cruel blow. She didn’t deserve all this.”

Miriam fell into a coma after severe head injuries when her car skidded on an icy road surface and hit a pole. It was the couple’s second Christmas together since marrying in 1990when they met at a disco in Mussolent a few years before and fell in love with each other. Doctors told him that his wife would probably not survive that night or would remain a “vegetable”, to which the man replied: “When I married her, I swore to be with her in joy and sorrow.”

Miriam was initially taken to the La Madonnina clinic to save her life and then to Casa Sturm, where she remained until she was transferred to the San Bassiano hospital following complications. Her husband said he visited Miriam every day, often several times a day, except during the pandemic and quarantine.

“I visited her every day during my lunch break and stayed for at least 15 minutes. Sometimes I even managed to visit her at night,” he told La Repubblica after the funeral on Saturday. Angelo said that he “immediately decided to stay by her side, forever, until her last day.” “It was very difficult,” the man says, “it was not easy to accept the situation. I was so angry at the injustice of fate. Such a beautiful, kind and special girl should not have suffered so much. Why was she given such a punishment?

Friends and family attended Miriam’s funeral at the parish church in her hometown. The mayor of Kassola said: “Apart from the tragedy of a life of 31 years, what struck me the most was her husband’s devotion for such a long time. In our egocentric world, this example of high relations gives reason to believe that the human is still not alien to us.

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