sentences:  After three months, he was allowed to die, though he was denied a church burial.Born in Rome, the son of Alfredo Welby, a footballer playing for A.S. Roma, Welby was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at the age of 17.During the 1960s, he became influenced by the hippie movement, extensively travelling throughout Europe from 1969 to 1971 and using drugs to help forget his disease; back in Italy,
  he devoted his life to poetry and painting, supporting himself by giving private lessons.