When George Died On "Scrubs"
[dx_custom_adunit desktop_id=”RTK_K67O” mobile_id=”RTK_5yk0″]
As a hospital show, even a particularly wacky hospital sitcom, “Scrubs” inevitably dealt with a lot of death. The show wrung a lot of pathos from the deaths of its characters, mostly its many one-episode patients. But the most touching of all came with the episode “My Last Words,” toward the end of the show’s long run. Drs. Dorian and Turk sit with George, an older, terminally ill but lucid patient who has mere hours to live. Acquiescing to George’s last wish, J.D. and Turk smuggle in a can of beer for him to drink, and they try to comfort him about death, promising that his will probably come quietly and painlessly. But George is defiant, unready to let go of life. That’s when J.D. and Turk admit that, though they can’t let it affect them or their jobs, they’re terrified of death too. The three men spend the next few hours sharing stories and laughter about their lives, and as George drifts sleepily away exactly the way the doctors described he would in the end, he whispers one last, happy thought: “Hey, man. That beer… tasted great…”