A dying man wrote this heart wrenching note while waiting an agonizing hour and forty minutes for an ambulance to arrive. Roland Volante, 74, suffered heart failure in his flat in Wirral on Bonfire Night last year. He died before help could come. He scribbled this note on the back of an envelope while he was waiting for the ambulance.
The letter reads: “I love you Rita, I love you Deb, Dad,” and was addressed to Mr Volante’s two adult daughters, Debbie Moore and Rita Cuthell. Mrs Cuthell said: “I think he wrote that note while he was waiting for an ambulance. He left it with his will on the sideboard. Look at the way his handwriting scrawls at the end. Since he died all I have done is eat, breathe and sleep. We can’t go forward.” Mr Volante had an emergency pull cord in his house and pulled it to alert the authorities. He could be heard by the call handler shouting for help.The call handler dialled 999 but the call was given a low priority by the ambulance service. The paramedics arrived at the house nearly two hours later and found him dead on his living room floor. The coroner who investigated Mr Volante’s death has recommended that Magenta, the alarm company who made the call, go back and reconsider their procedures. His life could have been saved if the ambulance service had been made aware that Mr Volante had an existing heart condition. Incidents like this are sadly far too common.