Roman elderly couple cry in the night due to loneliness; police cook them pasta

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Police in Rome, Italy melted the hearts of people from around the world this week after they offered up a plate of pasta to an elderly couple, whose cries of loneliness were so dire that it alarmed the neighbours.

It all started when police thought they were responding to a typical distress call and showed up to an apartment on Aug. 2. An elderly couple was crying so loudly that a neighbour called police. They soon discovered that Jole, 84, and her husband Michele 94, whose last names were not released, were “really lonely.”

The couple, which have been married for nearly 70 years explained to police they were fine, but that the loneliness was getting to them because they don’t receive many visitors. They were also watching the news and were shocked by some of the horrors happening around the world.

“The attacks and abused children in kindergarten…Jole wonders why there is so much evil,” the Rome police wrote on Facebook in Italian. “Life isn’t easy. Especially when the city empties and the neighbours are away on holiday. Sometimes loneliness dissolves into tears.”

The police officers were so moved by the couple they decided to spend some time with them and hear their stories.
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http://globalnews.ca/news/2875014/i...le-after-neighbours-hear-crying/?sf33022778=1

Aw.
 
depressing to think what will happen when one of them dies.

lonely old people in general are very depressing. at least lonely young people have (false) hope. the old know this is it.
 
This is probably the biggest reason people are afraid to grow old. Besides impending death, it's lonely.

As a young person, I often feel lonely and sad, and try to find activities to cover that up as much as I can. You think-- well, somewhere out there are people who care. But in reality, when you grow old, you realize the truth. No one cares, and you just become another burden on society.

The Italian police are an exception, because even that pasta is a temporary distraction from continuous torturous loneliness. First we are lonely, and no one cares. Then we die.

Yay!
 
John Dunbar said:
depressing to think what will happen when one of them dies.

lonely old people in general are very depressing. at least lonely young people have (false) hope. the old know this is it.
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I was helping my understairs neighbour carrying up her groceries. She is at least 95. I ask if there there is anything else I can help with. "No, I don't have long to live".


What do you say that? Have a nice tho? YOLO? Ayyyyeee? Old people think about death in a different way than we do.
 
This kind of stuff makes me so depressed because I can only picture the hundreds of thousands of people alone and wallowing in their own sadness of all ages, but the elderly in particular are heartbreaking to think of.
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
I was helping my understairs neighbour carrying up her groceries. She is at least 95. I ask if there there is anything else I can help with. "No, I don't have long to live".


What do you say that? Have a nice tho? YOLO? Ayyyyeee? Old people think about death in a different way than we do.
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I had basically the same experience helping this elderly woman (92) shop from her wheelchair at the supermarket. She's going through her whole life story and then drops "I never expected or wanted to live this long after my husband and friends passed away". I said I didn't know what to say and she said "don't worry about it, it's just the way of things".
 
Well, if you've got someone there to be lonely with, then right off the bat you're significantly less lonely than most people in the world.
 
I could get this if one of them were a widow or widower but when you have someone else there with you I'm not sure how you get lonely. Like especially the point that this story makes out.
 
Brawndo Addict said:
I had basically the same experience helping this elderly woman (92) shop from her wheelchair at the supermarket. She's going through her whole life story and then drops "I never expected or wanted to live this long after my husband and friends passed away". I said I didn't know what to say and she said "don't worry about it, it's just the way of things".
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Heartbreaking. My grandma is going through much the same thing. Her (second) husband is gone and all her friends are starting to die off. It's something we don't think about. At least not yet.
 
Pasta is filled with carbohydrates and it gives you that nice full feeling that distracts from how utterly devoid of hope and meaning everything is.

Hollywood Duo said:
What kind of pasta tho?
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Expectation

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Reality

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