Michele Barco took sweets and champagne for the last working day | Photo: Personal Collection
He was on his last day of service before retirement, saying goodbye to his colleagues at the company where he had worked for thirty years. As he was partying with his friends, handing out sweets and receiving hugs, he suddenly became nauseous and fell to the ground.
Emergency services were called, they came quickly, but Michele Barco Michele is a male first name in Italian had already died of a massive heart attack at the age of 58.
The incident happened on the 31st in Piazzolla sul Brenta, a town in the province of Padova, Italy. After 30 years at the Belvest company, which manufactures men’s clothing, Michele got the right to the retirement she had long planned but didn’t have a day to take advantage of. He was single, had no children and lived in the same city with his elderly mother.
Friends say he was very happy, he came to work with sweets and a few bottles of champagne to toast his last “giorno di lavoro”, ie his last day of work.
In the company he was responsible for product quality control. Some colleagues were in a state of shock and required medical attention.