Salmond died suddenly last month after having a heart attack while attending a conference in North Macedonia.

"I certainly wasn’t having a heart attack. But if it hadn’t looked that way, I never would have been sent to hospital," he said.

Once, after a loss with the Cardinals, he was so upset about the officiating that he sat upright in bed at 3 a.m. convinced he was having a heart attack.

“I woke my wife up and said, `Let’s go to the hospital. I think I’m having a heart attack.’

He said it included deaths from natural causes, where, for instance, people may have been transferred to hospital after having a heart attack.