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Together, were building a better california. death isnt sneaking up on john maxi. it warns him every day that its coming. the swelling, the nausea, the chronic pain, all reminders that his 60-year sentence at indiana state prison is coming to a premature end.

Stuck to me. i got the same tattoo on my chest. >> how did it tick 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 was given...

>> why? >> thats what the chief doctor said because if they cut me open the cancer will spread and kill me faster. >> so what does this peen for you? >> a death sentence. >> even with death looming over him, maxi found comfort in the support and camaraderie of his fellow inmate. >> 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 ma...

From his head to his feet. >> 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 god 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 kno...

Thing and that was he was probably most likely going to be in a coma soon. >> 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, from his wheelchair. so when i woke up i see him sitting on the floor and i turn to him. its the floor. he think hes sitting in the wheelchair. then i realized that he done ran out...

>> i fail fell into a light coma friday afternoon. 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 if yeah, but now i had changed at the hospital, on the street and in there. >> his chan...

Thats right. youve the pizza man sort of stuck to me. i got the same tattoo on my chest. >> how did it tick 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 -- >> disgruntle...

He has to take care of himself too because i care about him. thats 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. >> his 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, ...

Cant give me nor treatments. >> why? >> thats what the chief doctor 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 inmate. >> 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 ...

>> every day i think it was a question mark about maxi and his health and then we had arrived one day and there was an 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...