B.C. man facing death chooses life by giving back to the community [Video]

DUNCAN, B.C. –

Lance Debree will never forget being a teenager and having his first drink of alcohol.

“It was like, ‘Whoah! Where have you been all my life?’” Lance recalls. “And from then on, that’s all I wanted.”

Drinking was fun at first. Until it wasn’t. Until it led to doing drugs, losing access to his children, and living on the streets for more than three and a half years.

“I couldn’t see a way out,” Lance says. “What am I going to do sober? How do I stop?”

But then after decades of addiction, his heart stopped. Lance woke up in a hospital room that turned out to be his rock bottom.

“It was either I change or I die,” Lance says

Lance chose life, completed months of rehab, and connected with a local bike store owner named Will Arnold, who had shown him kindness on the street.

“I saw that …