By Aidan Wondracz/Daily Mail
A dying man with just days to live was granted his final wish by paramedics to make one last trip to the races.
Nigel Latham, 58, was wheeled in a stretcher to the edge of the track at Morphettville racecourse in Adelaide on Saturday.
The horse-racing lover was given a prime spot on the rails just 200 metres from the finishing post, where he watched the races with his wife Julie by his side.
Mr Latham was being transported from the Royal Adelaide Hospital to palliative care at his home so he could spend his final days in comfort with family.
Paramedics Bec Sanders and her colleague Laura asked the dying man if there was any place he would like to visit one last time.
‘I had been watching the racing in hospital, so wanted to go there,’ Mr Latham told 7 News.
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