Franco Di Mare, guest of Fabio Fazio a What’s the weather like on the Nine, revealed that he was seriously ill. The journalist appeared on video speaking in a faint voice: “This little tube that runs over my face is connected to an automatic respirator and allows me to breathe forcefully, but it also allows me to be here”, he explained in the link. “I got mesothelioma, a very bad cancer, linked to the presence of asbestos in the air.”
Di Mare then explained the causes: “It occurs because you breathe in asbestos particles without knowing it and once released into the air the fiber has a very long shelf life, up to 30 years, and when it manifests itself it is too late. To say that this is where hope ends is not true, because science always moves forward.”
“I’m here to celebrate a solution that could be discovered, let’s hope there is a solution and that it’s not that far away,” he adds, breathing heavily. Moved by Fabio Fazio, which reminds us that today is the day of workers who are victims of asbestos and presents The words to say it. The war outside and inside usthe book of Franco Di MareRai journalist, who was also director of Rai 3, which comes out in Shem. For illness, says the journalist, there needs to be the idea of community around the patient, “when someone stops to help others, the human community is born there”. The book intertwines his life story with the experience of the moment and his terrible illness.
“I had a beautiful life and the memories I have are full of life. I’m sorry to find out now, but it’s not too late, my referee hasn’t blown his whistle yet,” he says, greeted by great applause. Finally, Fazio underlines his guest’s regret towards those who disappeared when he learned of the illness: “The whole Rai, all the management groups” concludes Di Mare. “I understand that there are union and legal reasons, I was asking for the service record, the list of places where I have been to find out what could be done. I can’t understand the absence on a human level, people I used to address as informally who became connected over the phone. I find only one adjective: it is repugnant“.
