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Doctor: Pope declined artificial ventilation

Alfieri also reports on the very last hours of the Pope. « At 5:00 a.m. the Holy Father woke up to drink a glass of water. He rolled on the side, and the nurse noticed that something was wrong, » says the doctor. « He had trouble reacting. The Vatican’s doctor on duty was called. They called me around 5:30 a.m. and I was on site within a quarter of an hour. I found it with oxygen and an infusion. » Then he listened to the lungs. « She was clean, without rattling noises. But his eyes were open. But he did not react to questions or the pain of the tilting. He was already in a coma. His pulse slowed down and his breathing became increasingly flatter. » Briefly was considered to move Francis to the hospital again. « But he would have died during transport. » Death was then officially found at 7.35 a.m.