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Show Aged Italian Arranged Plans .for Own Death Parma, Italy. Girolomo Piarra, eighty-eight, feeling himself near death, dressed in his best, and visited the parish priest, begging him to give him the last sacraments, as he felt his end was near. Surprised at the apparently healthy man, the priest heard his confession and gave him communion. When Piarra had finished, he visited the undertaker, requesting him to take his measure for a coffin that would shortly be required, "as I am about to leave this world." Then he returned home, greeting all his friends and acquaintances ac-quaintances whom he met on the way and telling them he was leaving them soon. The old man went to bed early. He was found dead in bed the next morning. |