Samantha’s father is sworn in as a support administrator: I must act as she would have liked

The case of the thirty-year-old woman from Feltre in an irreversible coma. “From today – says Giorgio D’Incà – I have the possibility to authorize or not the treatments that the doctors will offer me, in one sense or another”

FELTRE. “I’m not a parent at this stage, but it’s like I am Samantha, and I have to act as she would have wanted. I am sure that he would not have accepted any obstinacy ». Thus speaks Giorgio D’Incà, father of Samantha, the 30 year old from Feltre for about a year in an irreversible vegetative state, shortly after taking on the role of support administrator from the judiciary of Belluno.

“From today – he explains – I have the possibility to authorize or not the treatments that the doctors will propose to me, in one sense or another”. With respect to the times, the man specifies that next week there will also be a meeting with health professionals and the ethics committee which, according to D’Incà, would have already considered «forced feeding as a form of therapeutic persistence. There will be organizational times, I cannot say when the path we are going to choose will be activated ».

On the position of the other family members, Samantha’s mother and brother, the man underlines how the state of mind can be defined as “broken but compact.” We immediately chose not to respond to any hostile or offensive message on social networks – he continues – even if the only ones who until now have shown a certain annoying insistence have been what are called “prayer groups”, which in my opinion they are only Christian Taliban. They also came personally to the house, but we turned them away “.

D’Incà instead spent words of appreciation towards the parish priest of Mugnai di Feltre, Giancarlo Gasperin. “He has always been very correct, he went to our house several times, but he never expressed opinions on the subject, always declaring himself in solidarity and at our disposal”.