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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. and if he die i'm going to [ bleep ] him up. he start laughing and he said, okay. he's telling me i'm embarrassing him in front of the ladies because the nurses ...

And they don't 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 it's hard -- >> do you think you'll see pizza man again? >> i don't -- nope, nope. >> we finished our shoot shortly after we did that last interview with monigan and found out a few weeks later that maxi never returned to the prison. he passed away and monigan never got to say good-bye to him.

And stomach hernia and they can't give me no treatments. >> why? >> that's 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 he's dying, he knows that there's not much the medical people can do. >> more than anyone else, joseph monigan formed a special bond with maxi. like maxi, he's also serving 60 ye...

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 maxi's 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 a 60-year sentence for murder but after meeting him, we realized he wasn't going to serve much more than the ten years he already had. he ...

In a coma soon. >> he was laying right here like he was in his bunk. so i got him up and he laid 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, this isn't aain't your bunk, it's the floor. he think he's sitting in the wheelchair. then i realized that he done ran out of gas. ain't no getting back to the bunk. so i take him to the hospital. bam. and i just hope he's all right. >> it...