Right, the trauma surgeon was hiding in the basement or sommat. Right. WTF ever. Dude, even if Wolfwood lives, he's gonna be a bad lay for a while, what with not being able to move due to the MASSIVE GUT WOUND.

Yeah, he's still got a lot of friends, luckily. They're just not the same kind of friends :-(

But they could be! In the future! Because now Vash can live on, always remembering his best friend Nicholas and trying to be happy because Wolfwood would want him too! And there will be puppies and kittens and baby guinea pigs!