A South Carolina hospice patient dying from cancer had his final wish fulfilled last Thursday: he was baptized.

Jenis Grindstaff, Navy veteran and former air traffic controller, said he's "always loved Jesus" but never got around to being baptized.

"He's always read the Bible, but he had never been baptized," his son Jim said. "He wanted to show he believed more than anything else."

The hospice chaplain, Terrell Jones, said Grindstaff "wanted full immersion. He said, ‘I don't want sprinkles'" — so they performed the baptism at Spartanburg Regional Hospital using a 60-gallon tub.

"That felt good," Grindstaff said after the ceremony was complete.

After video of the baptism went viral, the dying man said, "If I reach one person, it's a great deal."

And now, as WYFF reports, Grindstaff will spend his little remaining time drawing pictures of how he imagines heaven. "Streets of gold, and all that," he says.