On the Beach

I Haven't watched this series. I don't really like hospital series actually. I just happened to sort of stumble on to it, just saw some fragments of it. This is in actual fact the one episode I have seen. Twice to be precise, I saw part of it a couple of years ago and the series has been been repeated for a while in the Netherlands. For some strange reason I checked the TV-guide and saw the title. That was the reason I taped it,and yes, it was the episode I had partly seen before. I was mightily impressed. Rarely did I see one episode of a TV-series make this much of an impression on me. Kind of helps me prepare for ... well, I don't know... maybe the end of my own days. Maybe some time from now, maybe soon, I don't know. Very good indeed.

Because you're going to need it for all the tears.

What an episode.

I used to watch ER reruns if saw it on while skipping channels, but never followed the seasons. Now I finally had the chance. The character Mark Greene is one of the best if not the best in the entire show and this episode is how a true ending should be. Heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. Be sure to get some tissues before watching because you will definitely need them.

I watched this back in 2002 as a kid and now again almost 20 years later. The most emotional tv episode ever made.

I first saw this when i was 21, my father had been diagnosed with prostate cancer (certainly not the type Dr Greene had) but I had buried the feelings I had about it. When I saw this particular episode, it allowed me to get in contact with those emotions. I watched this episode today and one particular scene hit me really hard. You see when my father died of cancer he had a stroke, so when Greene starts telling his daughter about the one thing he feels he needs to impart to his daughter is generosity, to be generous of time and love, and he is slurring his words it really hit home. This is one of the few episodes of television dealing with death that really hits the nail on the head. That really depicts the sadness and the reality of death, especially by cancer. Some body really did their homework, and they really treated it all with incredible dignity.

I realize this is just a tv show, a work of fiction. It's about characters that don't exist, and I'll never have a chance to meet them. However, they touch us all in unique ways. Those characters all teach us something... and whether or not we realize it, we relate to them like they were a part of our lives.

I thought this episode was absolutely beautiful. I genuinely will miss Dr Greene, because as many lives as he had saved throughout his time on the show, he certainly touched mine.