extra credit six feet under

Six feet under season 4 ep. 8

The show personifies death as a business. Also they make it seem as if it strikes at any time. The show cpatures death as unknown and harsh.

In the first few minutes of the show there was a lot of sexual activity. Other than that there was this man james who died in his car. He was about 80 years old and he just died in his car. There was no explanation behind his death. The scary part was when the guy jogging dound the man dead inside of his car. The guy seemed as if he were embalmed in that slouched position

Later on in the episode we find that the man who passed away was a civil engineer who his family said drove himself to his funeral. He drove into the funeral home and died and he seemed wealthy. He has a nice suit, pristine vintage car and he had a pretty good job. What his family said was that he didn't want to burden them with work when he died so he basically predetermiend his destiny and saved his family from deciding what to do so that now his family only has to greive and keep his car witbh them. It reminds me of the way that funeral directors operate. The way that the man planned things out was as if he knew exaclty when he was going to die and he didn't fight it. He accepted death and unlike many people in our society he wasn't afraid of it. His funeral was more of a joyous occasion rather than a funeral. When we have funerals they are quiet and full of tears. His funeral was full of clapping and singing. The two different cultures have very different views. This episode was more about relationships between couples rather than death. I guess you can say that everyone has a death of a relationship. The lesbian relationship crumbled. The 2 guys realtionship was dying and the man who cheated on his wife is having a bad time to. I feel like it is trying to convey the meaning that death is where we finally can be free and not stressed. Reltionships are what we get into and sacrifice a piece of ourself to make things work.

Six feet under season 4 ep 9

This episode starts with a comic book collector getting crushed by a large shelve. he was 35 years old. The show demonstrates death as being unexpected and untimely.

This episode is about mending the relationships from the last episode. Everyone is moving on and people are still dying. This shows that we all go through our problems but the world doesn't stop moving because of someone and their problems.


This episode shows that respecting the wishes of those who are deceased are very important. The collector wanted to die with his rarest comic book buried with him and even though the man he was talking to wanted the comic so bad and could have taken it, he gave it to the funeral directors so that they can bury him with the comic. This means that they believe that bhe wants this comic with him and if he didn't he wouldn't rest in peace.

Six feet under season 4 ep 10

This episode was about how they all move on from their hurt relationships and the confessions are released. The mamy girls father moves in with a woman who he had a relationship with before her current boyfriend had been with her. After their relationship ended she started over. The funeral director is finally going to see his children again and is trying to do better in his life.

This episode is mainly about how we all mess up things in our life but we try to fix them. I feel like the characters being surrounded by death makes them realize how precious family and love is. To live unhappily with regret isn't worth it. They don't want to die unexpectedly and have things that should have been done in life. The people want to all have healthy relationships and they try to make it work but its tough when the past comes up. I can realte very well to this episode. Especially the scene where ruth goes back to her husband and they discuss love and making eachother feel special again. It was very similar to something I experienced a lot of. The feeling of being unwanted and taken for granted will make anyone want to leave their life. After all we mostly don't know what we have until its gone.