The Stand, Part I: The Plague

[Later, after the hospital is shown to be deserted and its staff killed by the plague, a dying Dietz returns to Stu's room with a pistol]

Stu Redman:
[Warily] Where's Denninger?

Dr. Dietz:
He's dead. They're all dead. Everyone except me, and thee.

Stu Redman:
And you're here to take care of me, is that it?

Dr. Dietz:
Hole in one! [Goes into a coughing fit]

Stu Redman:
Why?

Dr. Dietz:
Why? Because I've decided a chickenshit coward like you isn't fit to live. Not with so many good men dying.

Stu Redman:
"Good men". Those "good men" caused this mess!