“We must love life, protect it and always transform it into an act of love”: this is the message that emerged from the meeting that took place today in the “Rita Levi Montalcini” Professional Institute of Bottle On the theme “beyond the border of life: sensitizing, educating, donating”. The students had the opportunity to make an exciting journey in the extraordinary world of organ donations through a comparison with the experts and the meeting with people who testified this great gesture of love also through the pain of the loss. The meeting was strongly desired and organized by Professor Laura Barillaro of the “Montalcini” Institute which highlighted the importance of the donation, but also of respect for life: “Giving organs means loving life and making a gesture of great love. But to love life we must respect it. From pain, a gesture of infinite love that gives life is born”.
The works were moderated by the provincial president Aido of Crotone, Franco Renda who has repeatedly motivated the boys to “open his heart to let important things enter”. The mayor of Botricello, Saverio Simone Puccio, spurd the young people not to remain indifferent to the phenomenon of donation, also telling the feelings of those who live on their skin the pain with emotion: “Here is the Aido card – said the mayor – which I signed when I was 22 years old, just over your age. And a year and a half ago I saw the pain of my cousins when my aunt died and did not know what a decision to take on the donation of organs “. Significant messages have been addressed to students by the school manager Giovanna Moscato: “We must protect our life in the best way. The donation takes place following the loss of a loved one, but it is a great act of generosity. It is important to think that on the other side there is someone who can continue to live thanks to the sacrifice of another. I thank Aido and the professionals because they represent constant and concrete help to the awareness work”.
The students then carefully followed the intervention of Dr. Anna Grande, responsible for the intensive care (donations and transplants) of the Aou Dulbecco di Catanzaro: “None of us is prepared for death. When I give a communication of death, I find myself in front of a family closed in one’s pain. And how do you break through these people’s heart?”. Dr. Grande highlighted the importance of the donation of the organs explaining to the boys what happens from a clinical point of view. Then he touched on a gentleman of Botricello, Domenico Scumaci, telling his transplanted experience: “I was a miraculous,” he said, also referring to waiting times and the possibility of returning to live in a short time. Professor Aurora Martorana, a professor specialized in bioethics and sexology, explained to students the importance of bioethics and the need to also change the mentality: “Sometimes those who receive an organ is conditioned, for example, from what he puts in his body. Think about face transplantation, it is normal to think” I am no longer me “. But donating is an act of love and we must donate our lives”. Finally the touching testimonies of two women who have lost dear affections. A woman told the pain of the loss of her sister despite having given her her marrow. And then Mrs. Nuccia who, moved, recalled the loss of her son Salvatore and the act of love born from this pain: “Tomorrow I am 23 years after the road accident in which my son lost his life: he was by car with friends. He died in the hospital and I immediately refused the idea of the donation perhaps by anger. But my husband made me think. My son was a generous person and it was right to give this love”. Several organs were donated so inhuman pain has turned into force, joy and hope. “Where there is pain, love wins otherwise we would be in total darkness,” concluded the woman in tears full of emotion. Finally, an invitation from Dr. Grande to all Calabrians to increase donors in “a generous land like Calabria”.