theater in a school Palestrina, in the province of Rome, where Professor Antonio Negro AND deceased while teaching in class. The 59-year-old Italian teacher felt sick while he was with his students at the Luzzati High School and, after asking the children for a moment, collapsed on the ground losing consciousness.
The professor feels sick and dies.
The tragic episode occurred on Friday, February 23 at the Eliano Luzzati high school in Palestrina, in the Rome area, where Negro had been teaching for some years. The 59-year-old was giving an Italian lesson when he realized something was wrong.
In fact, the teacher He told the students that he was not feeling very well. and went to the bathroom. But just outside the classroom he suffered a fatal illness, lost consciousness and died shortly after.
The rescue and the drama
The alarm was raised by the same students who witnessed the teacher’s illness. The first to help Antonio Negro, known as Tonio, was a colleague, then, after the timely arrival of 118, it was the paramedics who tried to revive him.
A help that, however, turned out to be useless, because after 45 minutes of trying to resuscitate him The health workers couldn’t help but observe the death of the 59-year-old man to the desperation of his students.
Those who knew Negro reported being familiar with sudden deaths, considering that his parents and a brother also lost their lives at an early age, with unexpected illnesses.
The memory of the students.
The teacher’s farewell was emotional and very well attended, with many students filling the church of the Virgin of Good Counsel in Genazzano. Among them are those present and past who remembered the 59-year-old.
“He was not only a teacher but much more: a cultured man and lover of his work who knew how to transmit to students much more than simple notions”, recalled a former student of his.
Some parents remembered Tonio as “one of the most important teachers“for your children.
There are those who, greeting the teacher, also wanted to underline the importance of the teacher’s work that made so many of his students become women and men: “He left a mark that will remain indelible in the life of each student. Have a good trip Tonio.”