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Because we could be watching tv and wed be interacting. and they dont just be me, it be other people that would be around and it would be people that love him maybe talking to him and be making sure his spirits stay high. so that was all. everybody just tried to take care of each other, man, i mean its hard -- >> do you think youll see pizza man again? >> i dont -- nope, nope. >> we finished our shoot shortly after we did that last interview with monigan and found out a few weeks later that maxi...

Himself too, because i care about him. this is my brother. you dont see the resemblance? >> i think maxi gave monigan a reason to be. a reason to get up every morning. and i think that monigan gave maxi a reason to continue living. >> maxis best hope of survival would be a liver transplant. but that was unlikely. >> its a complicated situation. there is some concern about the continuity of a transplant program if people find out, well, youre going to give my liver to a criminal, some people woul...

Ambulance out front and it was actually blocking our entrance into parking, into the parking lot and we found out that maxi was inside the ambulance, so once we got in to see monigan he told us he had had an event during the night and he was being rushed to the hospital. >> what was the last communication you had? >> he told me he loved me. >> what did you say? >> i love him too. and if he die im going to [ bleep ] him up. he start laughing and he said, okay. hes telling me im embarrassing him i...

Sort of stuck to me. i got the same tattoo on my chest. >> how did it stick in prison? >> everybody knows me and a lot of people from my town plus it was all over the news, my story, my case, you know. >> the reason john pizzaman maxis face was all over the news was because on halloween night 1996 he murdered his boss inside the pizza parlor where they worked. >> i was mad at my boss and things went bad and he lost. he said i was -- he said i just -- >> disgruntled. >> oh, boy, exactly. >> maxi ...

I dont remember, you know, i woke up in the hospital. >> maxi recovered in the hospital and was sent back to prison. but the latest scare prompted some changes. >> this is some paperwork i signed for them to take off of dying like to give me cpr if i lose it again because before i told them i didnt want them to do that. >> you told them do not resuscitate you? >> yeah, but now i had it changed at the hospital, on the street, and in here. >> his change of heart regarding his do not resuscitate wa...

Said because if they cut me open the cancer will spread and kill me faster. >> so what does this mean for you? >> a death sentence. >> even with death looming over him, maxi found comfort in the support and camaraderie of his fellow inmates. >> him being around us, i feel like this is what gives him hope. even if he knows hes dying, he knows that theres not much the medical people can do. >> more than anyone else, joseph monigan formed a special bond with maxi. like maxi hes also serving 60 year...

>> he was laying right here like he was in his bunk so i got him up and he lay back in his bunk then he covered up. then he got out of his bunk and went to the restroom, came back and instead of laying back down in his bunk he sat on the floor, in front of his wheelchair. so when i woke up i see him sitting on the floor and i turn to him. no this aint your bunk. its the floor. he think hes sitting in the wheelchair. then i realized that he done ran out of gas. aint no getting back to the bunk. s...

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>> by the time we met him, maxi had had a few recent brushes with death. the last time he fell into a coma and was rushed to an outside hospital. >> we was in church and one of the officers came in and was like, pizzaman died. so, you know, we all mourned and, you know we -- it was crazy. we like, man, well, comes to find out that there was a guy in the hospital with his name that died, not him. so when he came back, he come back strutting and we like, oh, man. you know. >> i was in better shape...

Because we could be watching tv and wed be interacting. and they dont just be me, it be other people that would be around and it would be people that love him maybe talking to him and be making sure his spirits stay high. so that was all. everybody just tried to take care of each other, man, i mean its hard -- >> do you think youll see pizza man again? >> i dont -- nope, nope. >> we finished our shoot shortly after we did that last interview with monigan and found out a few weeks later that maxi...