On the night before the surgery, the Imam went to the hospital on his own feet. While he was leaving, he told us: “I am going for the surgery but I shall not return anymore.” When I responded that “No, it is not so” he retorted: “You are not aware.”
Name of the narrator: Fereshteh A’rabi
Title of the Book: Impressions and Memoirs about Imam Khomeini's Practical Behaviour, vol. 1, chapter six, page 305