Sunday, May 15, 2011

COTD5

Season 1, Episode 1,3 June 2001
On Christmas Eve, 2000, funeral-director Nathaniel Samuel Fisher is involved in a hearse-accident with a bus and is killed. His family must all cope with his death.It its interesting how death makes every ones life stop.Death seems to bring upon such a ray of different emotions.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Will,10 June 2001
Chandler James Swanson has a car accident, he dives into a pool and drowns and leaves his family with a mountain of debt. Nathaniel's will gives Ruth all his money, Claire an unwanted trust fund, and David and Nate the funeral business.It weird how a death of love one seems to do nothing but leave a burden, weather that be finical or emotional. We always talk about the death in terms of the person experiencing it but we seem to forget all the people it touches.


Season 1, Episode 3: The Foot,17 June 2001
While cleaning a dough-mixer Thomas Alfredi Ramono gets caught in his aide accidentally activating it. Nate agrees to sell the funeral home, with Ruth's support but changes his mind when he hears another's view of Gilardi so is forced to reconsider if this easy choice is the best one. It was interesting the family dynamics between Dave and Nate. Both of them have different views on whats right.But it seems they both have secrets and internal "demons"

Six Feet Under is a collection of the relics of lives that no longer exist and their effect on the one around them. I think what these shows where trying to get at is that these relics are an important because they are the only means by which we really remember someone, by touching something they once wore, made or wrote.

I feel the show provides depth without always true insights, but then such things are left are true in life. But especially in death , I find that I think will all get some great insights from death but sometimes that's not true. And I think that's what this show explores that while death is a heavy thing life still goes on after it. Sometimes you don't all of a sudden get this new awakening. The show offers a different way of looking at death, and I have to say it feels more alive.

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