I had been seriously ill with gastritis intermittently since nineteen fifty-three when I had been offered to resign the papacy. I underwent cellular rejuvenation treatment, the side-effects caused hallucinations and nightmares. I frequently had to miss work, I began to depend highly on my close colleagues, Domenico Tardini, Robert Leiber, and Pascalina Lehnert. On October fifth of nineteen fifty eight, at my summer residence Castel Gandolfo, I suffered extremely painful complications, I still managed to try and continue my duties between intervals of rest. The next morning, doctors came in to pump my stomach, I however, lost consciousness and was given last rites. I woke up a short time later, the nuns had opened the door to the Papal Chapel, where I could hear them praying the rosary. …show more content…
At three fifty-two in the morning on October ninth, I passed away. The cause of death was recorded as “Acute Heart Failure.” For my embalming, I didn't want my vital organs to be removed, I wanted to be kept in the same condition "in which God created me." Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisa, the man who claimed that he was an embalmer from the Naples, had used a new system with oils and resins with which the body of Jesus Christ had been preserved. Unfortunately, the weather was so hot that my body decomposed badly, causing the public viewing to be