past her though such activities were often interrupted due to frequent medical treatment or hospital visits. Her condition did make her prone to sudden hospitalization (such as when suffering severe anemia) and sometimes blood transfusions which weakened her. Zanetta often needed doses of medication in order to regulate the disease and her eyes would redden due to the condition. In 1973 she had her first encounter with the Focolare Movement that Chiara Lubich had founded and she ended up becoming a member in the movement. Zanetta would maintain correspondence with Lubich on some occasions. Her condition allowed to appreciate the goodness of life even if there was suffering in it. This manifested when she learned about a conference of Italian doctors who were advocating for euthanasia. Zanetta opposed euthanasia (and also abortion) and wrote a response on 4 November 1984 to the local magazine Famiglia Cristiana urging people to see the goodness of all life despite its occasions of suffering. From 26 October 1983 until her death she kept a journal in which all her thoughts were written to Jesus Christ detailing her spiritual reflections. Zanetta also met Pope John Paul II in Arona in November 1984 who embraced her and she later received the Eucharist from him during the papal Mass. In 1984 she had a surgical procedure before doctors suggested that she be cared for at home since the disease was too advanced for doctors to be able to do more for her. Zanetta did not leave home much following this though did have doctors continuing to assist her at home. Doctor Cavagnino - who aided her around this stage - said that she had the "precise and determined will to live" and that she "was bursting with love for others". In her final months she often wrote articles and reflections for her parish bulletin. Her condition worsened in February 1986 and she would later predict to her mother that she would die in April and even gave her three dates (she predicted 7 and 21 in addition to 14 when she did die). Zanetta managed to inform her parents on 10 April 1986 of how best to distribute her savings to the poor despite it being a modest amount. Zanetta received the Eucharist on 13 April and said (a few times): "Thank you, thank you for everything" before she entered into a coma. Zanetta regained consciousness the