Max Bell's life ended miserably on a Broken Hill hospital bed.
It wasn't the exit the former cab driver had wanted: in fact, it was one he'd driven more than 3,000 kilometres through the centre of Australia, woefully sick behind the wheel, to try to avoid at all costs.
The tough-as-old-boots cabbie had hoped to go out on his own terms, calmly, quickly, not crammed with tubes as his insides were corroded away by the aggressive terminal cancer in his guts.
