The SVT Salminggenen documentary contains unique images.
Viewers can closely follow how Bourret Salming fell ill and died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
– He just wanted to be here a little longer, says his daughter, Bianca Salming.
Jane Salming has begun filming to follow Bianca Salming and how she will learn more about her father, Boris Salming.
During the recording time, Boré-Salming was told about the illness and his condition quickly worsened.
The documentary contains close-up photos from the months before and after the ice hockey legend’s death.
We got the last big comprehensive TV interview with Bureh Salming.
Daughter and 24-year-old track and field athlete Bianca Salming shows strong emotions during the illness and after her father’s death.
– He wasn’t ready to die yet, he wanted to stay here longer than anyone else. “I’m pretty sure he’s in a good place, and if there’s anyone in this world who ends up in a good place, it’s him,” Bianca Salming says.
His closest family was at home when Bureh Salming fell asleep.
-I think my father died in the best way possible, but I don’t think he died happy. Because all he wanted was to live. I just know that he had such anxiety about death. He really wanted to live,” says Bianca Salming.
“Something he had to do.”
In recent months, Borje-Salming was with his family in Toronto during Hall of Fame weekend and at the Hockey Times’ Globe ceremony when the Swedish Ice Hockey Association turned 100 years old.
– That father died very quickly after these things showed that he had to do something. This meant that those were the most important things in his life. He included us in the family here in Sweden, but he needed to go to Toronto again and thank the Swedish people again. Then I think his body and soul felt it was over. “It says what these things mean to him,” Bianca Salming says.
Despite the serious health condition, they understood how important it was for Boré-Salming to be able to come to Toronto for the last time.
– We knew that we spent very little time with dad and the most important thing for us was to check what he wanted to do and what was important to him. The last time he couldn’t speak, he just gave a thumbs up and a thumbs down. Then we received a request from Toronto for these honors as well as the ceremony in Sweden. We asked him every day because we wanted to make sure he actually wanted it and was capable of it, and it was just a thumbs up the whole time. The only thing he wrote on his board was that he wanted to leave. We realized very quickly that this was important to him and we wanted to do everything to make it happen and be as good as possible,” says Bianca Salming.
‘The biggest shock’
Father and daughter were very close and she was struggling to process the grief.
– For me, the day of his death was the biggest shock. First, because I have never seen a human being die in front of me. Then there is the person who has meant the most to me ever. The experience of someone taking their last breath would be a trauma that would be difficult to remove from my mind. I don’t know if this is what I want to remember from my father. It stays there, it’s a strange feeling to see the person you love disappear. “It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” says Bianca Salming.
In the series, for the first time, we also get interviews with Bianca’s mother Katharina Petersson and her brothers Rasmus and Anders.
It contains special family photos from different stages and places in life.
Bureh Salming died at the age of 71 on November 24, 2022.
Salminggen is available in three-hour segments on SVT Play from November 19.