Gennaro Natale's story

My name is Roberto Natale, I am 24 years old and my father who would have turned 60 on 15 November 2020 was suffering from a stage IV melanoma with brain, bone and spleen metastases. he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that paralyzed his left arm and leg on the morning of 8 August 2020.

His story begins in July 2016, when he was discovered to have this disease due to a bleeding mole behind his back. Until November 2019 everything went well with the controls when the first lung metastases appeared, which is why he began immunotherapy until August 2020, the month in which he suffered a stroke.

We have always faced everything with serenity even if the events did not allow it, in fact in January 2018 she underwent another operation due to a sarcoma on the temple (another malignant tumour). He always gave strength to others and taught us how to deal with these situations even joking about death.

His death arrived on October 25, 2020, and what made him feel more bad was having to leave my family and especially me, who had accompanied him to the end, leaving the house together every day and doing normal things to not think about anything. I tried to find a solution and for this, the promise I made him was that whatever could have happened to him we would have resorted to cryopreservation, with the hope of being saved in the not too distant future.

Unfortunately, I am not in the financial position to support this expense, which is why we have decided to carry out the conservation of his DNA with the hope that in the future it will allow us to interact with him in some way. My promise as it may not be the resolution to his illness has given him hope and confidence to go through this final stage. Furthermore, Gennaro Natale loved Russia, in fact he visited Moscow and Kumertau more than once and just as he would have liked, a part of him remained in Russia with his DNA.

As he would have said ‘’Пока, пока’’.

Author: Roberto Natale