A 50-year-old transgender former
teacher burned herself alive in her camper van on a northern
Italian road at the weekend.
Cloe Bianco, former teacher at the Istituto Mattei high school
of San Donà di Piave near Venice, had said she was going to
commit suicide in a blog post on Friday.
Her charred body was found in the burned-out vehicle on the
regional highway between Auronzo and Misurina near Belluno north
of Venice on Saturday.
In her blog post last Friday Bianco said: "Immediately after the
publication of this communiqué I will carry out my auto da fe,
or rather my free death.
"On this last day I have celebrated with a tasty meal and
excellent nectars from Bacchus, enjoying for the last time wine
and food I like.
"This simple party of the end of my life was accompanied by good
music in my little home on wheels, where I will now remain.
"This is the most poetic way to live my life to the best and end
it in the same style.
"Here everything ends".
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