Doctor Mike and Mortician React To “Six Feet Under”

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Published 2020-10-11
Caitlin Doughty is the creator behind the YouTube channel “Ask A Mortician” where she normalizes death and educates her audience about what happens after… well… you know. Being the brilliant mortician she is, I thought it would make a lot of sense for us to not react to a medical drama, but a death drama, so we watched HBO’s Six Feet Under. Despite my years of medical training and experience, there isn’t a lot I know about what happens to the human body after it dies, so Caitlin enlightened me to things such as what happens to prosthetics, the smells of a mortuary, and what happens to your various orifices.

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All Comments (21)
  • @lowcalmoon3305
    “I work on preventing people from becoming corpses” must be the best description of a doctor’s work that’s ever been made.
  • @funglegunk
    I love the way Caitlin phrased speaking about the brain. 'You're holding the seat of the soul.' 'It's a privilege.' Pretty cool.
  • @morphman86
    Caitlin: "I was studying medieval history, and in medieval times, there was a lot of death" My brain: "Oh my god, you're right. Everyone who lived in medieval times are now dead!"
  • @carollyncheeyen
    Caitlin: "If you don't take care of yourself soon, I will."
  • Titanium hips post cremation are made into signs? So when the sign says "stop", that's a dead person telling you to not get hit by a car.
  • Their conversation about seeing random bodies vs someone you know is so real. When my boyfriend died, I spent some time with his body shortly after. And it was an incredibly eerie, but also heartbreaking experience. There's something about the way a dead person looks, particularly with the eyes. It was so uncannily sad to look into his eyes, and for the first time know that nobody is looking back at you. He didn't look asleep, he looked dead. He died with his eyes open wide. And I'll never get that image out of my head. But still, I don't regret it. I got to spend one last intimate moment with him.
  • @carmenmb94
    I read her book "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" years ago. I've been a fan ever since. The idea of my family spending thousands of dollars to preserve the shell I used on earth, store it in a pretty box inside a glorified septic tank is absolutely ridiculous. I've been eating animals all my life. It's their turn.
  • @KeilaAnn3610
    Nothing makes me happier than seeing Caitlin in collabs.. More people need to know her name and her message.
  • @abigail1023
    Words cannot describe how much I loved Six Feet Under, as a show that could have me crying and laughing hysterically in the same episode.
  • @chloemiller2483
    My aunt died very recently and I immediately went back to work at the “body farm” at my school and the first donor I put out I actually sobbed because all I could think of was this was someone’s family that died just like my aunt. Luckily my anthropology teacher was there with me and told me it didn’t mean that I was “weak” but that I was feeling normal emotions that would pass. Seeing a dead body is always strange but I guess I had gone callused to it until I lost someone very close to me.
  • Her aesthetic, her black clothes, her rings, her hair, her voice. I’M LOVING THIS
  • @hydrashade1851
    "sometimes its made into airplane parts" good to know I was probably flying on someones titanium hip
  • @SuperStarr817
    My aunt had medically assisted death, she was in unbearable pain from cancer. Seeing the heavy painkiller go in so she could enjoy some time with us and then when the big injection going in, seeing the colour fade from her face and her eyes close was so emotional and extraordinary to see as it was happening.
  • I’ve recently discovered Dr Mike and love his channel. I am a huge fan of Caitlin for like 3 years. This is the very collab I needed to see. “The Middle Ages were magic”
  • @Msliliheart
    The video is too short. We need more of this collab.
  • @tafellappen8551
    at my grandmother's wake i just remember thinking "oh, look at your hair! it looks so good." and remembering how happy and refreshed-looking she was whenever she got something done with her hair. still whenever i think back to that day i just see her smiling ear to ear about her hair again. so contagiously happy. it means so much to me.
  • She has genuinely helped me go from terrified of death to strangely kinda excited for my natural burial 😂