Six Feet Under

A drug-addicted actress dies from a cocaine overdose and leaves her fellow cast and crew members to set up the funeral.

A famous football player dies of dehydration during a strong training session, and the family is hired for the funeral services.

A man dies after a long battle with cancer, and his psychic widow discusses the funeral arrangements with the family.

Nate and Claire go to Seattle to pick up the body of a man who died on a public bus.

A middle-aged woman chokes to death in her apartment, and is found dead a week later.

While at a boat party, a drunken man falls overboard. The family tries to convince his widow to use their funeral services.

Jewish executive Jeffery Shapiro accidentally hangs himself while masturbating with asphyxiation.

Christmas Eve - and the 1-year anniversary of Nate and Brenda's meeting and Nathaniel Fisher's death - is approaching, and this year, the Fishers are requested by the Hell's Angels motorcyclists to allow the funeral home to be open on Christmas Day so they can have a party/memorial service for Jesse Ray Johnson, who was involved in a motorcycle accident on his way to his part-time job as a mall Santa while greeting some kids. 

A construction worker's metal lunch-pail falls from his perch on the building and strikes Dwight Edgar Garrison on the head - resulting in a major family conflict between his current wife and her 2 stepdaughters from his first marriage, on whether he should be buried with his late wife or the widow. 

Benjamin Srisal suffers a heart attack at home, requiring a Bhuddist service at Fisher & Sons that Nate gets a crash-course in how to conduct, but he's still got no answers as far as what should be done concerning Brenda and Lisa. 

Edith Kirky is the 4th patient of the year to be brought to Fisher & Sons from Bay Breeze Hospital where Vanessa works, so David predicts Rico's usual pride over the fact...but no one predicts him, suspicious about her neck-markings, to discover a whole hot dog wedged down her esophagus. 

The Diazes' friend and former neighbor Leticia Perfect Perez dies in her sleep at a beauty parlor and leaves his family a large sum of money, causing Rico to remember how he lost his father and got into the funeral business to begin with. However, she also leaves behind a son, never close to her in life, who wishes to give her a more expensive casket than her pre-meet's choice and is jealous of Rico.