Top Ten Six Feet Under Deaths

My view of the best opening scenes from one of my favourite series!

[@leadcoachemily]

The one that has stuck with me for years was the one where the lady living alone choked on her snack while doing a crossword... it was a bit too... possible. Has me still cautious when eating alone

[@jomcueto980]

Thats one of the most depressing death. She’s literally have no family or friends left

[@OneAdam12Adam]

It's almost happened to me twice.

[@stirgy4312]

I hear you. I get occasional gerd and make sure I eat carefully and chew well and drink as I eat to prime the pipes, so to speak. I've had a few mini Heimlich events.

[@steph13326ify]

A good thing to remember is that if you have a chair, you can always push your stomach over the back of it to perform the heimlech on yourself.

[@LaPlaztique]

Me, who has consistently choked on DayQuil gel tabs so I stopped trying out of fear. It also doesn’t help that I have stricture in my esophagus that has to get stretched out every couple of years, lol.

[@CowboyJojosAdventures]

One of the greatest series ever written.

[@elizabethcunicelli7023]

I agree, very creative

[@CowboyJojosAdventures]

Elizabeth Cunicelli I watched the whole series a second time around and loved it.

[@paperchasindude6578]

FACTS

[@greatheightsu]

This show fucking sucks.

[@frankieaddams3937]

THE Greatest, IMHO

[@mrlopez-pz7pu]

OMG - NOTHING will ever top that blow-up doll rapture! LOL!!!!!!!!!!

[@rrialb9371]

LOL, that was definitely #1!!

[@neoswagtwigofthetwignation9778]

Those blow-up sex dolls got to live their dream as astronauts. Good for them. The crazy Jesus lady gets to go in a box underground.

[@markdaniels7174]

I absolutely loved it, but I’m an atheist who loves mocking religion. 😅

[@danielciocilteu3545]

Woman: "Take me with you, angels!!!" Blow up dolls: "Sure honey, come on up!"

[@chaselewis7853]

Hands down the best one of the entire series 😂

[@brainscott8198]

Summer, 2001 to Spring, 2005...HBO ruled on Sunday nights with Six Feet Under leading into The Sopranos.

[@Milkymilk07]

Omg hell ya! I looked forward to Sunday

[@slickrick2420]

How can you discount The Wire? Far more popular than SFU

[@nodnarb3540]

The whole family dying was always so sad to me. That and the newborn.

[@Jll-fj3kc]

Wow you look like the Dad.

[@cheyennesanchez7201]

The SIDS baby fucked me up

[@danielciocilteu3545]

Some people say that we never really moved on from pagan sacrifices. Now we just sacrifice millions of people to the Car God. Blood for the Car God!!! Automobile accidents are the largest percentage of all human death in any form of transportation today. Not to mention people that are permanently maimed because of car crashes.

[@MrSpotlight101]

This is like watching a more dramatic version of 1000 ways to die

[@readmore8740]

depends on what drugs you intake, try not to watch things of reality TV on psychedelics, it will influence you as much as me after I watched monkeys bashed with little hammers at a restaurant, I think it was called "Faces of Death" It took many years to recover from the visuals and I can only say I feel so sorry for you now. SFU was just a TV show. Please remember that.

[@jakebrodowski9]

Watching 1000 ways to die is like watching a less Dramatic Six Feet Under FTFY.

[@lukess.s]

@@readmore8740 one of the funniest things I've ever read

[@patrickbateman1540]

It's called six feet under for a reason

[@swampwitch6133]

@@readmore8740 I was eating a bowl of chili when that one came on never looked at chili the same after that. That was just heartbreaking to see that chimp stuck in the middle of that table trying to escape and pathetic humans bashing it's skull in with mallets so they could eat it. Those were some sick people, if they got HIV-AIDS they deserved it.

[@xamalion7334]

The wonderful Beth Grant running towards the sex dolls angels is one of my favourites ever! 😍

[@leonardobraynen1524]

She scared the pee outta me when she appeared as a ghost and started screwing Nate Am like whoa dude!

[@AG-iu9lv]

Beth Grant is amazing in everything.

[@roseroserose1108]

the series finale of this show had me crying like a baby

[@brookiev8960]

I still cry like a baby when I watch it.

[@theryanbard]

I like the one where the woman kills her annoying husband with a frying pan and then just sits down and eats breakfast. He was boring.

[@cbrcruz9003]

What are you talking about?!

[@Vriappiopoi]

That guy kept asking the customer for the order number. He should have been able to look up the customer's order by last name.

[@Riama1984]

agree man that was the BEST!

[@mcrubar]

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[@kathconserv]

theryanbard that was a great one.

[@rebeccapacifico5689]

The one where the woman was eating alone in her house and choked to death? I think about that one every time I’m alone.

[@Milkymilk07]

Omg 😱 me too

[@marticus1642]

This show was like a thousand ways to die but more realistic

[@danielbergonzi7319]

Ironic since 1000 ways used actual deaths.

[@Milkymilk07]

Crazy

[@arrivagabry]

odd deaths

[@skyofthelivingdead]

George’s mom making him hold her hand while she killed herself in front of him when he was a little boy was pretty rough. No wonder he was as screwed up as he was, that’s something you never truly recover from.

[@crieverytim]

Well in terms of his doomsday fantasies, he looks saner every passing year 😂

[@senakagatitosakaalbertoaka3195]

I started having more sympathy for George since that episode

[@danielciocilteu3545]

I thought that his character arch was brilliantly written. First you saw him slowly slipping into the doomsday craze and later you find out it was a parental program in his mind. Then he got better with medication and he actually ended up taking care of Ruth in the end, which i thought was very sweet.

[@skyofthelivingdead]

@@danielciocilteu3545I agree. Never understood the hate for George I’ve seen a lot of. He was a man who made a lot of awful decisions due to his trauma and thus is trying to make peace with his demons. It’s admirable.

[@nikkicnu]

this show makes me afraid to go outside.

[@JaneEffenQLurker]

+Foto Focused good for you

[@NapoleonCalland]

+Foto Focused You obviously missed the deaths that happened INside ;)

[@tylermunden6642]

You should see the death where the single woman dies choking on food while watching tv. Nowhere is safe! So just live your life.;)

[@poohcanplay123]

Tyler Munden good point

[@lieutenantlettuce8306]

Just be aware of your surroundings and you'll be find

[@roberthurley6860]

The crib death one haunted me for years.....with the baby looking at the baby mobile and it faded away as he passed.

[@MB-zn4xw]

I had to pause and collect myself cause I was sobbing for a good 15 mins after watching that opener

[@AG-iu9lv]

It's sad, but at least brief for the baby. It was the parents drowning in guilt & grief that got me, especially in a time & society where one can reasonably expect all of their children to survive into adulthood.

[@NxDoyle]

It was a great series, especially earlier on when Richard Jenkins appeared more often. Such a great actor. As the show progressed they started doing a little bait-and-switch during the cold opening sequence, setting things up to appear as if one person would die before 'killing' someone else.

[@MikeClarke85]

It became a game in our household to guess the death as soon as the episode started. My fave one is one I managed to guess correctly. The show had been known for getting wilder and more absurder deaths. Anyway, a man was jogging in the hills, and I was like, er.. there's nothing that can kill him... a mountain lion? Sure enough a lion jumped at his throat. Sweetest win!

[@itsbonkerjojo9028]

It was Cougar .

[@leonardobraynen1524]

Mountain Lion Same thing​@@itsbonkerjojo9028

[@danielciocilteu3545]

I wish i would be mauled by a "cougar". A nice brunette cougar with fake tits. XD

[@danielciocilteu3545]

I wish i would be mauled by a "cougar". A nice brunette cougar with fake tits. XD

[@Jordan-kj8xu]

lol I guessed the year they were born lol

[@nodnarb3540]

The blue ice thing is one of the best. Not because of the death itself, but how we saw how one little incident completely unrelated to this woman led to her death -Man and daughter release bird -That bird poops on the hat of a man on the street -the man on the street goes into a store to wash up and is told by the owner not to flush the toilet -the man from the street flushes the toilet anyway, making the owner have to clean up -Owner calls wife to let her know he’ll be home a little later than planned because he’s cleaning bathroom -wife isn’t getting good reception so she goes outside to hear her husband better -SPLAT All because this man and his daughter released a bird.

[@Jennyfisch]

Good deed!

[@abenrojas5653]

What fell on her head though

[@AdamThoba...]

@@abenrojas5653 blue ice from airplanes, they drop all over but now days they dump them over the seas and water

[@AdamThoba...]

Cause and effect,

[@AdamThoba...]

Chain reaction holy shit the entire show is all connected

[@dollydagger4306]

Bruno Baskerville Walsh's 1972 death hit me hard for some reason. So high on acid he jumped off the roof thinking he could fly. It seemed realistic cos incidents like that happened to too many young people in the early 70s. In the late 80s though, this guy in my high school died while high on LSD. He drowned. He thought he could walk on water.

[@dollydagger4306]

Along with an awesome song, which at times sounded warped along with the hallucinations (people's heads getting bigger) showing how high on acid Bruno was. Then seeing him trying to fly and the sound of something dropping heavily, both Cindy and Bruno so stoned they didn't realize Bruno had dove on to a parked car, dead.

[@kennethkdj]

a brilliant series deserving of all of the awards that it received, and a lot that it did not. what could have been a disaster because of the subject material, was turned into a thoughtful, true to life series, and manged to inject humour alongside all of the other topics. brilliant.

[@aidacailar1126]

I couldnt agree more with you. The plot itself seems uninteresting and in the hands of the wrong director, cast and guionists it would be a disaster. But fortunately this wasn't the case. The best show I have ever seen and I have seen quite a lot.

[@AG-iu9lv]

Good writing can make almost anything engaging.

[@Moiso25]

Perhaps my favourite part is that in some of this deaths you think "ok this one dies" like the man cleaning the toilet. I was sure he was goin to slip and break his neck and then happens other thing. And this is the terrible/amazing thing of death, the line on being alive is so thin we don't see his random and ironic ways. And when my dad and mom died, this show help me to cope and accept that we have lo live reconciling life and death.

[@oliviarodrigo7440]

The guy that got killed in the giant mixer always stood with me

[@TwistermanTelevison]

i believe that’s like the second death in the show yeah that one fucked me up too

[@anthonypickhardt4971]

It actually happened

[@TheGrillCheeseFanatic]

One of the funniest was the wife silencing her husband and casually eating her scrambled eggs. He kept talking on and on and she obviously snapped. She said in defense that he was boring.

[@randmiller88]

I never liked that one. In reality most husbands are much less talkative than their wives but, if the roles were reversed, depicting that would seem more cruel than funny.

[@vikingsong2068]

No, that's a lazy generalisation. How much a person talks is nothing to do with their sex and she killed him because he had constantly criticized and nagged her for decades.

[@vikingsong2068]

It wasn't because he was boring. It was because he had constantly criticized her for decades and she snapped.

[@sketchyold]

@@randmiller88It was funny.

[@mariluzmachado1859]

On Number 2, I was thinking, "Well, at least the dogs are okay."

[@stephsinger5163]

Me too!!

[@hammertime237]

Proper Darwin Awards that one was

[@neoswagtwigofthetwignation9778]

And this is why you always wear a helmet

[@EileenF-ng4lq]

Yeah a helmet will totally defend your chest from becoming a smoothie by a car not looking where they're driving. totally.

[@pathendlem]

My favorite was the one where the guys pulling out of his driveway and he reaches down to try to grab his mail but then he falls out of the car and the car starts going in reverse and then runs him over. It was just so sudden

[@tiagogomes4731]

It was Nate’s friend

[@crieverytim]

Sounds similar to how actor Anton Yelchin died. Freak accident and tragic

[@Inno_Kävelijä787]

I always loved Anahid Hovanessen’s death. The entire opening sequence was so well framed and shot - you genuinely have no idea who is going to die or how 😂

[@markdaniels7174]

And how did SHE die? What was it that fell from the sky and hit her? That really was the craziest mis-direct they ever did… the bird, to the actor, to the gas station owner, to the owner’s wife.

[@ARock437]

@@markdaniels7174late response, but it was blue ice! Fell from a plane.

[@danielciocilteu3545]

It was a very nice case of "the butterfly effect" and only time they played that concept. Anahid was killed by blue ice. It is a form of ice that accumulates on the output of a planes residual water drainage system. This happened on older model planes, but because of such accidents, newer models have systems to prevent large pieces of ice from accumulating.

[@MrJuly1990ish]

I know this is your top ten, but the opening death in the second season, when the abuse woman hits her abusive husband over the head with the frying pan and sits down to eat breakfast is fucking priceless!!

[@Yesbutdoubtful]

It is a good death. The husband wasn't abusive though, "she just said he was boring," which is an even better choice.

[@readmore8740]

dad's death in pilot was outstanding, sort of. made a great beginning of a fabulous show.

[@theryanbard]

Omg yes! I had to pause the episode I was laughing so hard. The conversation Nate and David have about it afterwards is pretty awesome too.

[@ashleym6682]

YES OMG LOLLLL

[@83gemm]

They LITERALLY clarify in the show that he wasn’t abusive. She just killed him for being “boring,” which sets up one of the funniest jokes when Rico and David are talking about it. “Sometimes I’m boring.” “Me too.”

[@ToycarsaddictDaily]

The last one was just....horror! O.o

[@jogiff]

It was "blue ice". The stuff that gets flushed in plane toilets mixed with the wastes in the toilet and frozen in the high altitude. Don't worry, AFAIK there has never been a death by blue ice in real life.

[@RatedArggg]

"I should really take them off and walk down." Yes, you should have.

[@mchllwoods]

I know its morbid but the funniest death was when the Armenian wife gets hit by blue ice while talkin' on the phone. Damn...that almost looked like a cartoon, how fast n out of nowhere that was!

[@MizzWizzFizz]

Michelle Woods, you have the same name as my mother

[@AdamThoba...]

Was computer graphics images CGI so that's why

[@atiredbee9228]

@Bryan Black Hello, three months later to say that blue ice comes from airplanes, the blue water they use in their toilets (used to?) leak occasionally, and it can build up on the side of the plane in a big chunk of ice which can warm up and break off as the plane descends. i dunno if its ever actually caused any deaths but it has caused property damage in the past!

[@jackedkerouac4414]

After that her husband became Borat’s manager

[@neoswagtwigofthetwignation9778]

*BONK*

[@ojj75]

Lol! I need to rewatch every season - being a decade older and 10 times more cynical, I'm going to enjoy this a lot more. :)

[@seeyoshirun]

I love all of these, but I would probably have replaced one of them with the death (I think it was in season five) where the woman gets advice from her therapist about standing up for herself, and you see the different way all the people in her life respond to her newfound assertiveness. I think it ended with her leaving her husband, who gets into a tussle with her in which he accidentally shoves her so she gets skewered on a poker next to the fireplace. It had the most fascinating build-up to that last moment. Also the great fakeout in season two where a guy almost falls from the top of a construction site, but his buddy pulls him back. Unfortunately, his lunchbox falls and hits a passer-by walking underneath.

[@jellyphish2112]

+seeyoshirun I actually came here looking for that first one too (she didn't leave her husband, just stood up for herself and then he got bitchy that she had poor taste and the like, he forced her up from the chair and then she fell head first into something), as I don't have HBO anymore...that was my favorite as well, just very well acted.

[@seeyoshirun]

Jelly Phish That's right! It's been a while since I've seen that episode (I'm back up to season 3 at the moment) and I'd forgotten exactly how it went down.

[@jellyphish2112]

seeyoshirun The weekend after I wrote that HBO was free for the weekend, so actually had the opportunity (and looked for this episode that we talked about, was as good as I remembered).

[@jschuler53]

I agree, that was one of my favorites too...the woman who stands up for herself...And great build up but ends up getting impaled. A little, highly developed movie at the start.

[@ButtersCCookie]

Absolutely!

[@mst3KGf]

Some deaths on this show were sad and there were others where those that did die were prime candidates for the Darwin Awards. (Dr. Greene's daughter from "ER" falling off the bed, the guy getting run over in his driveway by his own car trying to get his paper, the Rapture lady...the list goes on.)

[@Maupin001]

The girl's death was weird because it was like, did she fall and die, or did she die and fall?

[@Ben-yj8ye]

Maupin001 she fell and broke her neck

[@QueerAndUnplugged]

The Rapture is the BEST death ever!

[@alexeicogan4733]

+QueerAndUnplugged Definitely!!! LOL. I commented on that same matter today, with a few fitting hash-tags included.

[@cbrcruz9003]

That death was the most messed up death! You guys are sick!!

[@alexeicogan4733]

cbr cruz You're speaking out in favor of the dumb woman who "thought" she witnessed a rapture and climbed out of her car and got struck by a car as a result?! Go away, you're dumb (in real life) as she was on screen. Anybody who believes that Christians will some day float away into the air has no more brains than they do! You're dismissed!

[@QueerAndUnplugged]

cbr cruz What da fuck are you trying to say?

[@cbrcruz9003]

I am saying that i get the motherfucking point of the death!

[@eileen1820]

Six Feet Under is beautiful in every way. I LOVED it and now it's my 14 yr old son's favorite show too. :)

[@aadityabhattacharya]

Eileen D I don't think it's appropriate for 14 year kid

[@TheGrillCheeseFanatic]

It definitely is filled with several adult subjects, but fourteen years isn't that bad. I would be more like sisteen in my case, but to each their own parenting ways. Don't forget that Six Feet Under changes our ways of life and death. It may enrich his young soul. I watched this on DVD at twenty two for the first time and loved it.

[@coloniadelsarcasmoesteril123]

​@@aadityabhattacharyaI watched it recently and I have just 15 now, I think is great to watch for any age above 12... just teaches you a lot about death and gives it a different meaning

[@starcatcher3691]

I was watching this series last December (2023) while my boyfriend was dying of cancer. I was his caregiver and couldn't leave him. It was Christmas time and I couldn't celebrate it. It was just a blur. Often he'd go out of consciousness during the show (a part of dying). I'd cry and cry at the death I was watching and dying I was experiencing. The last episode was the worst for me. I was crying and crying and turned around my boyfriend wasn't even conscious enough to talk to. I felt ao alone. That was a poignant episode but it was too much for me. The message : everyone goes. By the way he passed away January 18th 2024. I still have grief attacks. The show did help me accept death and remind me that death is a part of life.

[@collinsje5]

Back when SFU was running on HBO, we used to call these scenes "Croaker of the Week". The Rapture was one of the most hysterically funny things I have ever seen on television.

[@saint-gallier]

Another death that strikes me as being too real is the woman who decides it's time to speak up to the people she loves, her sister, father and husband. It happens so fast and it's like "it's never too late to speak out but shit happens no matter what".

[@Milkymilk07]

True

[@morgangunning30]

my favorite part about that one is her saying she hates his antiques- and ends up being killed by one of them

[@bruceseidel2381]

my personal favorite opening death scene didnt make the cut - the one where the monotone husband was going on and on about his boring job while he was waiting for his wife to cook his breakfast, and she got so fed up with listening to his crap that she hit him over the head with a skillet, killing him, and then she sat down at the table and ate the breakfast she had prepared for him.

[@markdaniels7174]

That was the first one I think of as a “misdirect.” From then on, they continued to mess with our expectations about who would die. And how.

[@guardiansanimalrescuestate7289]

At least the dogs were okay. Lol.

[@dollydagger4306]

I binge watch this show on a wee hours of the morning basis. Love this show!!!!

[@loopylou6841]

I bet the writers had So much Fun comming up with these deaths 😂

[@jogiff]

I'm pretty sure that she just fell off the bed while laughing and broke her neck.

[@belleenigma1528]

Snapped her spinal cord immediately and died as a result. Moral of the story kids: don't prank call randoms!

[@13strong]

I thought she had an aneurysm or something...

[@melissamarks7319]

Died laughing 😆

[@skyofthelivingdead]

She did. At first I thought she just had an aneurysm, but if you listen close you can hear the bones breaking.

[@levelemup]

The hardest for me was the dead baby in episode 11 season 1

[@Sarah-qx4vz]

Eugh. Used to not care about shit like that but as a mom of an almost 8 month old, that shit triggers me so much it’s insane.

[@incaseofrapture6989]

The woman who dies chasing angels in "In Case of Rapture" is the same woman who gets blown up trying to get off the bus in Speed lol

[@catsrule1343]

Boy that lady's really down on her luck

[@shaylaburr6501]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@BadBoyBobby85]

She's in donnie darko too

[@jackedkerouac4414]

Whenever a movie requires an annoying lady they call her agent

[@Buckaroo_Baldwin]

She's also the teacher in Child's Play 2

[@Kidofrodo]

The traditional death ritual is certainly one of my favorite things about this show. I love how even the most tragic death usually feels hilarious, and how deceptive the writers are to make you believe somebody's gonna die in a certain way- then dies in a sudden surprising way or somebody else actually dies. I'm kind of amazed that Nathaniel's epic death- which is, if I remember correctly the first death- didn't make it to the top 10! Anyhow, great video :)

[@readmore8740]

Dead liek me came out about the same time and I sort of mix them up sometimes. best conclusion goes to SFU for sure I still love Nate, to this day.

[@peppapig9004]

The elevator one was the most disturbing

[@neoswagtwigofthetwignation9778]

Yeeeeeeah, can't say I'd like to cut in half by some elevator doors either.

[@peggynielsen4808]

I use to hurry at work to get home in time to start on tv. Absolutely love this show.

[@jondavis2790]

#4 (acid trip that isn't explained until the end of the episode) is my all time fav

[@gr33n3ggs4]

Simply, best program ever made. Each and every single episode.

[@valmacclinchy]

Haven't watched it yet..I've heard it's depressing but also cathartic

[@gr33n3ggs4]

@@valmacclinchy Again amazing show. The final 10mins of the series; one of the best things ever filmed.

[@raymondsims7042]

@@gr33n3ggs4I’d say the wire is the best show ever made but six feet under isnt far behind. It’s top three for me

[@therealshino4607]

Imagine your buddy accidentally breaking their neck while goofing off

[@DannyVampire14]

At the start of the episode i thought that guy that was boiling water in the kitchen was gonna die but apparently not

[@AdamThoba...]

Re-Read and you'll find out

[@Bucinka8]

Some good ones in there, but my favorite is still the porn star who electrocuted herself in the bathtub. Second favorite is the lawyer who ran home on his lunch hour to erotically asphyxiate, and lost control of things. (They found him with the lemon wedge still in his mouth.) Some of these, like that one and the lady who thought the sex dolls were the Rapture, were based on actual events.

[@Bucinka8]

BTW, I forgot to add that that porn star was played by a real porn star, Veronica Hart.

[@richl9268]

No lemon wedge was on the floor, un-smushed. That's how Ricko knew it wasn't suicide.

[@Despond]

Every second there is a death and it can be planned, expected or totally random. What a show.

[@J-CBertrand-tp6bg]

Six Feet Under had the best final episode of any series EVER🥰‼️

[@ellyem1885]

So funny, all of it. Thank you. I'm gonna watch this over and over and over and over and...

[@ZNearX]

damn if that man never helped the bird, the bird woulda never shat on the guys head, and then he would've never used the bathroom, and the owner woulda never called his wife and she woulda lived, dem nature you scary

[@delightfulsunny]

What was it that crashed on her? a toilet seat?

[@rimccormack]

delightfulsunny it was a chunk of blue ice, blue ice is when you use the bathroom on a plane and when you flush, it coagulates with the blue chemical and it discharges out of the plane while in flight.

[@Ben-yj8ye]

Renee B its not supposed to be discharged out of a plane. It’s supposed to be disposed of on landing. Chunks of blue ice fall out when there are peaks in the airplane disposal.

[@lazypielastnamedontcount5666]

Actually, I would've blamed the man with the hat. He was told the toilet is broken but he didn't even listen and flush it anyways.

[@therealdababycovertible9503]

The power of butterfly effect

[@BabyScarecrow]

The last scene feels like a cut from Final Destination :P

[@BadBoyBobby85]

Or resident evil. Happens in china alot

[@moisemensah8233]

The whole show feels like it

[@ezequielrivara2205]

This show is one of the best as Breaking Bad. It show you it could happend anytime anywere because that´s life!

[@everkief8650]

I'm too lazy but I always thought it would be a great idea to splice out all the opening death scenes. Even after 5 season many were total surprises. You would watch a few seconds and think "I know whats going to happen here" and then someone else would die totally unexpectedly. After many years I'm binging the series for maybe the 3rd or 4th time. Of course I binge Dexter about once every year since its release. Anyhoo, thanks for compiling these. My favorites are the frying pan to the head and the woman walking outside for a better cell signal and being decapitated by a block of ice.

[@chasquared4588]

I had forgotten how great that show was!

[@Tom.Livanos]

I will never forget the porn star getting electrocuted in the bathtub while talking to herself about her next "conquest"... And later that episode where some middle aged guy gets up at the funeral to mourn her passing, "There were only five things I had in life I looked forward to.." Still brings me laughter :-)

[@seangates900]

The cat who tipped over the hot rollers.

[@Tom.Livanos]

@@seangates900 Lol. That's the one.

[@ericksantos4555]

The best deaths are those of the main characters because those are the ones that have such an emotional impact. All the rest were sad, but just another one.

[@StefanTonioSampson]

Erick Santos To YOU. To other watchers they were gruesome, funny, touching, reminders....to live.

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Nate and David combined dream sequence before Nate's death is easily the funniest scene of the entire series

[@BadBoyBobby85]

They only showed nates until the end, then everyone all at once

[@Stuart267]

Where's the one with the boring guy who's wife kills him with a skillet?

[@aaronlegresley9495]

lol I am literally watching that episode right now and that's what made me youtube "Six Feet Under Deaths" That guys is hilarious

[@Stuart267]

Aaron LeGresley True possibly the biggest actor to have an opening death in the show

[@lovewilliams4500]

I was thinking the exact same thing. That was just hilarious. I actually expected it to be on here.

[@itssopathetic3938]

Stewart Damien yes or the one where the truck rolls over the guy

[@wexfordam]

My favourite was the golf ball death omg I was laughing so hard

[@BloodylocksBathory]

#3 definitely kept me guessing lol

[@Cat-vi9jd]

I always found the girl falling off the bed so disturbing! Just seems so…easy!

[@4zafinc]

Lol all episodes started with a mini-Final Destination, followed by realistic social drama. Unique series

[@gainal9080]

Tbh the best death of the whole show has to be Claire's. It truly manifests the seminal theme of the show: life is all about our people.

[@paperchasindude6578]

This show is a masterpiece

[@LittleghOstGreen]

Okay nonoby talking about the inflatable dolls flying in the sky looking like angels ? Man it was GOLD !

[@maziebunny2]

***** that was priceless...and to have Beth Grant (who is one of my favorite character actresses) play the victim who broke for the "rapture" was a bonus. but sadly, one of my favorite deaths was left off the list: Jonathan Arthur Hanley who was killed by his wife for being "too boring" in season 1.

[@Warlady21]

My favorite is the lady that thought that the raptured was happening.

[@joeschmoe3630]

The blue ice one was always the best!

[@hadrianmonk]

I remember one episode starting with someone leaving a building while there's thunder and rain outside, then opens an umbrella and gets struck by lightning.

[@DrVonChilla]

I watched Episode 401 when it was first broadcast and the opening sequence has haunted me mercilessly ever since. Thanks for posting....!!

[@sweranero9976]

How the hell does anyone, much less a 13 year old kid, get killed falling 2.5 off a bed onto the carpet? Not even Mr. Glass in Unbreakable was that fragile.

[@nextstepsenglish]

I agree. I believe that death was the result fo lazy writing.

[@nasraali8801]

you can break your neck very easily at the correct angle tbh. ever heard of that saying ‘you’re more likely to die falling off your bed than a shark attack’ ?

[@redvines4142]

She broke her neck or asphyxiated on something probably.

[@BadBoyBobby85]

​@redvines4142 anurism

[@JenniferRice]

I think the most heartbreaking ones was the young legless veteran having his sister help him commit suicide. The death of the young man with terminal cancer that Nate comforted during it was also hard to watch. Of course the death of Nate was,too. To me,the grossest was the baker in the mixer and the elevator one shown here.

[@johnofthesouth5425]

The terminal cancer death was surreal!! I remember after thinking, OMG what the f**k did I just witness! The acting was soo good in that scene. The poor guy was absolutely petrified of passing while struggling to breathe properly. Nate didn't know what to do other than just be present with him as he slowly and agonisingly faded. Then it was over.

[@JenniferRice]

​@johnofthesouth5425 Well said. This death gave me the same emotions like that of some of the expected deaths. For ex,the horror film starlet's cocaine overdose was not a shock,but the rapid sudden violence of it was still horrifying to watch like the terminally ill patient Nate sat with. Then there was Nate's death itself,which was not expected nor seen happening...he was just gone.

[@BabyScarecrow]

the whole series is about a family with a funeral home business, so every episode start with a person's death and their body shows up in the funeralhome later in the episode and ties together the story.

[@anthonypickhardt4971]

If anyone ever gets curious enough, you can cross-reference these deaths and see many of these scenarios have happened

[@SuperChicken666]

I always loved how the opening was so similar to House MD's opening except, of course, for the deaths.😊

[@zlatkoigric5084]

Probably one of the best series ever made.just right amount of morbid and gore and...stuff

[@veraweatherspoon6140]

This is my favorite show of all time!

[@JeffFreemanPresents]

Matt Ross! Even in a short little scene, he is the best bad-guy EVER!

[@MeowthRocket]

He was the workplace shooter, right?

[@andieschoen]

how did the dough mixer not make this list

[@andieschoen]

or hoyt’s death ??? that one was insane

[@willowwren7752]

♥️thank you for posting these!!! I’m going to have to pay for a subscription to rewatch all the seasons!!!

[@jackthepirate9233]

That show had the best openings ever. The last episode was a masterpiece.

[@cdema]

All time favorite show

[@robanybody_]

Why the fuck would those people try and pull the poor guy back into the elevator?

[@zoeybatterup152]

+Robert Cooke cause it was closing

[@sweranero9976]

They literally said "get in here"

[@13strong]

As Bill Hicks said: Who flies by jumping off a roof? Take off from the ground first! You ever see birds getting the elevator to the roof?

[@loveydovey8383]

The frying pan one should have been #1. It was hilarious.

[@GRILLBUOY101]

miss that show great actors .

[@morgangunning30]

I love the one of the couple in the hot tub- she gets out to shower and prompts him to come with her, but he insists on staying in there a little longer. the camera pans in closer on him while he closes his eyes, and it's tense! until you hear the woman slip and fall distantly in the house, and she ends up being the death for that episode. best subversion ever

[@RagnarokMic]

The rapture is definitely my favorite one.

[@njbestvideo5977]

Ok, I always thought the lady getting decapitated by the bucket truck was the worst. The guy getting cut in half by the elevator is my new # 1.

[@Lorraine3033]

It's funny...I'm just about finished watching all these on ONDemand and I didn't laugh at one of these deaths while I watched them recently-yet today, I'm cracking up. Weird!!

[@StatenProductionsInc]

The elevator death TOTALLY ripped off of Final Destination 2

[@chucksbytes]

you have a really good list here. What about the one with the guy reaching for his paper in the driveway while sitting in his SUV, I thought that one was pretty ironic.

[@MartyPollio]

My favorite series ever. I remember one where someone died from a falling block of frozen urine from a jet flying over.

[@montecarlo4294]

How does somebody die from laughing too hard?

[@BadBoyBobby85]

Brain anyurism or hemorrhage

[@padawansound6423]

She broke her neck by falling off the bed

[@kylie9687]

You know when you laugh really hard and you struggle to breathe? It could always lead to a heart attack or something else

[@nasraali8801]

she fell off the bed and broke her neck

[@YourBoyMarc12]

Is the dairy owner guy in #3 the same guy who played Azamat in Borat?

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Yes, you qualify for free Borat Tour of Kazakhstan 🤣