Phil Harris was never the picture of health, but some fans don’t want to see him in his final hours.Seattle-based skipper Phil Harris spent much of his chain-smoking, deckhand-swearing life on camera. But did he also go out that way too?The 53-year-old Captain of the Cornelia Marie

died on February 9th. Having never recovered from a coma-inducing stroke he suffered while unloading his boat.Now, a producer of “Deadliest Catch,” the show which made Harris a star, says the sailor requested his final moments be filmed.Executive producer Thom Beers says his crew was there in the hospital room, cameras rolling, when Harris unexpectedly came out of a medically-induced coma on February 2nd:”When he came out, he was trying to talk. He couldn’t, but he was motioning with his hand to my producer and camera man. We said we want to give you your space and get out, and he wrote on a piece of paper. It said, ‘No, we need a great finish to this story,'” Beers says, with a laugh. “He’s just come out of a coma, and he’s producing [the show].” The fact that Harris also summoned what his sons Josh and Jake proudly described as “his trademark captain’s bluntness” to tell the doctors and nurses “Don’t f– up” spoke volumes, Beers adds. “That was wit, that was sarcasm, that was sardonic, that was brilliant.”Beers says the decision to air the footage will be up to Harris’ family. Although some fans are already weighing in with their opinion, preferring to keep Harris alive in their memories as the gruff, lovable, tattooed captain, not the mute, comatose man seven days away from death.