does monk die at the end of the series
As Monk takes a walk along the beach with Molly, he finds himself asked by her on what he will do, now that he Trudy's murder is solved, to which replies that he wants to retire and follow Molly around and document her life with scrapbooks of photographs. Molly tells him that he can't give up being a detective, advising him to use the gift he has to ``help all the Trudys in the world'', to which Monk agrees to continue his work as a detective/consultant. As Monk prepares for another day, with his actions, speech and style of clothing implying that his various phobias and obsessions are now under control, he informs Natalie that he will be going to the movies with Molly, before the pair leave to take on another case, with Monk returning to check that the stove is off. In an epilogue made after a montage of clips from the course of the show's eight seasons: Disher comfortably settles into his new job as Police Chief; Stottlemeyer is now happily married to T.K. (Virginia Madsen); and Monk and Natalie arrive at a crime scene to tackle their next case for Stottlemeyer.
Mr. Monk and the End