[ WP ] Death comes to you when you are on your deathbed and you discover he 's actually a very nice Canadian guy .

`` Oh hey there friend!'' His voice broke the steady beeping of the machine that kept me alive. The big burly man was dressed in a red plaid shirt and held a hockey stick. He could n't have stood out more in the white hospital room, nurses and doctors rushing past the open door. 
 
 The bearded man sat down in the chair next to my bed, leaning his stick against it. He smoothed out his khakis, crossed his arms over that barrel chest. 
 
 `` Rough day, eh?'' He asked, concern now shrouding his visage, his bushy eyebrows tight. It had been rough, I had just been in an accident, hit by a drunk driver on my way home from a friend's wedding. 
 
 `` Well buddy,'' he continued, his face now showing more remorse than I thought possible, `` Truth is you're not gon na make it, do n't you know. That's why I'm here, to guide your soul to the afterlife eh... but um, you can always contest that. I never take anyone unless they really want to leave. Ca n't say it'll be much better here for ya, being a ghost and all, but you're free to choose eh.'' 
 
 I thought about my loved ones here, my daughter who was on the other side of the country, my aunt who was here now crying and talking to the doctors. 
 
 `` Oh ya, leaving them will be hard,'' the giant of a man said, wiping a tear from his eye, `` But do n't ya know you'll be with your other passed relatives eh! You're grandmother's been talking me all them stories of when you was a kid, and your pop is there too. He's sad you got ta leave here, ya know, but you'll see him too, eh'' 
 
 The machines let out an ominous note as doctors rushed into the room calling out orders, cc's of this and that many compressions. I just stood there with the big man in the corner, his hockey stick in hand, watching the chaos. 
 
 Not long after, when my aunt had come in and started crying over my body, I looked up again at that smiling face, his teeth shinning through that thick beard. 
 
 `` Come on now, eh!'' He said holding onto my arm and guiding me out if the room and on to the next life.
