Last Call

Written by M.C. Huff / Illustrated by Ella Scheuerell

In my twelve years as a hospice volunteer, I have experienced this recurrent theme: nurses or medical facilities not allowing the patient to have things deemed “unhealthy” for them (like beer or soda) because it’s unhealthy for them, but the irony is insane. . . because if they are on hospice, they’re already dying! Who cares? Let them have whatever the fuck they want!

So, I once snuck a Stella Artois into my hospice patient’s room, and we shared a single warm beer between the two of us. I had never seen her so happy.

This was written by M.C. Huff who is the writer and director of the Golden Trail Project , a film which aims to highlight medical aid in dying, dementia. treatments, and normalizing discussion around death.

This was illustrated by Ella Scheuerell, a cartoonist who likes to talk about her anxiety and depression in her comics, which have become one of her most valuable tools in her quest to stop the stigma surrounding mental health.