 He was struck and killed by a car on a highway near Verona in 1988 while he was trying to rescue a woman who had remained entrapped in another car accident.At his public funerals, Italian priest Don Mazzi highlighted the itinerary of Marco Donat-Cattin from the dark years of communist-driven terrorism to his ultimate "sacrifice" to save a life.In 2018, the daughter of Mr. Aldo Moro, the Italian political leader kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades, Ms. Maria Fida Moro, reacted to a controversial statement made by a former terrorist on the 40th anniversary of his father's murder by indicating that the only former terrorist that she had respect for had been Marco Donat-Cattin, who would have wanted "to be cancelled from the world and who died trying to give back to others part of what he had taken away".