(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 20 - Mafia superboss Matteo Messina Denaro said he planned to take his own life before his cancer got the better of him, according to a letter penned to his sister before his capture and published by La Repubblica newspaper on Monday.
    "I will not die of cancer, as soon as I cannot take it any more I will kill myself at home and you will find me. I will tell you when the time comes," wrote the now jailed Messina Denaro, who was captured at a Palermo cancer clinic in January after 30 years on the run.
    The Trapani superboss had been condemned to life in prison in absentia for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the 1992 bombings that killed anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a mobster-turned-State witness who was strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996, and bombings at art and religious sites in Milan, Florence and Rome that killed 10 people and hurt 40 more in 1993.
    He is now being held at a maximum-security prison in L'Aquila.
    Rosalia was arrested in March on charges of mafia association.
    for allegedly helping her brother evade capture and acting on his behalf as the 'cashier' of the 'family', while also running the transmission network of the 'pizzini' (boss' orders and instructions), thus enabling the mafia boss to maintain relations with his men during his long period as a fugitive from justice. (ANSA).