A Nova Scotia man who began smoking when he was young used his final hours on Earth to record a video message from his hospital bed warning others against the habit.
Published Saturday, May 11, 2019 1:36PM EDTThose are just some of the final words of a Nova Scotia man who filmed a moving message warning others not to smoke as he lay dying in a hospital bed hooked up to machines.
“In his last few days, he discovered that he had an ulcer in his stomach that was bleeding,” Wiseman’s sister Sandra Wiseman-Burrell told CTV Atlantic on Friday. “They tried to do a couple surgeries on it, but the doctor had told us that his bowels, his small bowel was like mush, and they couldn’t even sew into it anymore.”
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