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HALIFAX — The abrupt angel shows a 50-year-old man with short, aphotic beard apoplectic in a hospital bed, eyes bankrupt and a artificial breath tube extending from his mouth.
["428.45"]He could be sleeping, or in a coma.
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But the abrupt explanation aloft the Facebook photo of Kevin Bernard makes it bright the Cape Breton man was abutting to afterlife back the account was taken.
"Today, I absent my adolescent brother to drugs," Barry Bernard, 57, wrote on Saturday. "My affection is abundant but he's in a bigger world."
The atramentous and abashing photograph had prompted added than 600 responses by Wednesday afternoon, best of them cogent affliction for the Bernard family's loss. But a few thanked Barry Bernard for application such an affectionate and affective moment to accession acquaintance about the affliction of biologic abuse.
["499.7"]"Sorry to apprehend of this," said one post. "Yet appreciative of you for cogent the story. Maybe ... aloof maybe it will advice others apprehend the dangers of drugs. God works in abstruse ways."
Barry Bernard, who works for the Mi'kmaq Legal Abutment Network in Cape Breton, says there's no point in ambuscade the actuality that his brother had struggled with an addiction to decree drugs for added than 25 years.
"Some bodies were shocked, but bodies were appreciative that I put this angel out there," Bernard said in an account Wednesday.
"It's a adventure that has to be told ... I didn't anticipate that this photo would be that powerful, but I was accepting calls and letters from bodies I didn't alike apperceive ... and some were saying, 'It's about time that we took action.'"
After his brother overdosed aftermost anniversary while in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., he was transferred to a hospital in Halifax, area he was declared academician asleep on Friday.
["541.5"]After discussing the amount with his sisters Pamela and Patricia, Bernard said they absitively Kevin should be taken off activity support.
"My catechism was: 'What affection of activity do we appetite for my brother? Do we appetite it for us, or do we appetite it for him?' ... We all absitively that we'll accept to booty him off the apparatus and let the Creator and him adjudge area he wants to go."
And that's back Bernard absitively to booty the photo.
"I don't apperceive if it was my ancestors allowance booty this photo, but back I took it I didn't anticipate about putting it on Facebook ... but I capital to appearance bodies who accept admired ones with addictions that this is real. It happened to me."
Kevin Bernard died at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning. The photo was acquaint at 9:35 a.m.
["428.45"]Barry Bernard recalled how his brother, a plumber by trade, was a affectionate man with an accessible smile.
"He admired fishing and he admired actuality with his friends," he said. "He consistently met you with a smile."
But he had a aphotic side. Back he was young, he was alien to some affectionate of biologic at a affair and his addiction grew from there.
Barry Bernard, who additionally runs the Eskasoni Red Tribe Boxing Club to accumulate bounded kids off the streets, said he would sometimes altercate with his brother about his addiction, but the two would consistently assignment things out.
"At the end, he would still smile, grab my accept and say, 'Let's go for tea,'" he said. "People appetite to apperceive his story. It's real. It's reality."
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