#Six feet under nate death dream series

Nathaniel said, 'Am I going to have to separate you boys?' and that was just what happened. That dream, whoever's it was, was so moving. The Bus of Death came in the form of the family van, with Nathaniel Senior at the wheel - the same van that Fisher & Sons always used to transport bodies. Even if I hadn't known it was coming, I would have known it was coming.

#Six feet under nate death dream series

I thought from the very beginning that the only logical way to end the series was with the death of the main character. This is a series about death, after all, and right from the very first episode, a specific subtheme has been Nate's relationship with death in particular. I don't think a fictional death has ever affected me as strongly as his did.Īnd yet it felt right, somehow. Losing Nate was like losing someone I knew. He loved, he made mistakes, he hurt the people in his life, he searched for happiness and struggled to find meaning, as we all do. Not because he was good or bad or funny or charming or sexy or self-centered or annoying - he was all of these things - but because he felt like such a real person to me. Or he found peace, and it ultimately led to death. It was almost like he shorted out, like his body blew up and it cleared his mind. (Was it Nate's dream, or David's? Or both?) In his final day on earth, Nate was so calm and quiet. In the end, he stopped fighting in the dream, he jumped right in the water, and found it warm and welcoming. When the series began, Nate was running from death.

Nate: 'You're making love with somebody and your head explodes.