{"id":6014,"date":"2013-07-05T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/mandela-mulled-death-in-video\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T10:25:03","slug":"mandela-mulled-death-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/mandela-mulled-death-in-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela mulled death in video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly 15 years ago Nelson Mandela was unperturbed by his own death, telling a dying teenager that he had lived his life to the full.<\/p>\n

The video dating from 1998, broadcast by American news channel CBS on Thursday as Mandela remained in critically ill in hospital, showed the towering South African statesman visiting a 15-year-old, also named Nelson.<\/p>\n

“Understanding the fact that I’m near the end, I remain optimistic with my morale very high, because I’m saying I have lived my life,” the statesman, then 80, told the teen, who was dying of brain cancer.<\/p>\n

In the amateur video the boy, his head shaved, smiled shyly from his bed at the peace icon, who wore one of his colourful trademark shirts.<\/p>\n

Posters of cars adorned the wall next to where the then-president sat holding a teacup.<\/p>\n

“If your spirit is not optimistic, your morale is not high, medicine is not very effective,” the then president said.<\/p>\n

The boy died under three months after the visit.<\/p>\n

Broadcast as the 94-year-old nears one month in hospital, the words carry added poignancy.<\/p>\n

According to court documents from Mandela family lawyers, filed nine days ago, doctors believed Mandela was in a “permanent vegetative state” and they advised his family to turn off his life support machine.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s presidency has since said his condition has improved and on Thursday denied he is in a vegetative state.<\/p>\n

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