Premier Giorgia Meloni on Saturday
wrote an open letter, published in The Telegraph, to the parents
of Indi Gregory, the eight-month-old incurably ill British girl
to whom Meloni's government granted Italian citizenship in early
November as part of an unsuccessful bid to keep her alive.
Indi died in the United Kingdom early on November 13 after
British doctors turned off her life-support machine.
The Meloni government had tried to bring her to a Rome hospital,
the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù, for treatment but British judges
ruled that it was not in her best interests for the life support
to continue.
Two government ministers, Family and Equal Opportunities
Minister Eugenia Roccella and Disabilities Minister Alessandra
Locatelli, attended her funeral in Nottingham Friday.
In her opne letter, Meloni said: "From today she will no longer
be in your arms, and you will no longer be able to be enchanted
by her smile, but Indi will continue to live, because, as Chiara
Corbella Petrillo (an Italian mother known for her Catholic
faith as she battled cancer, ed.) taught us, one is born and
never dies".
Meloni wrote that Indi lived "a short life, too short, but long
enough for your daughter to remind people around the world that
every life, every single life, no matter how imperfect it may
seem to the world, is a treasure to be treasured".
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