Six Feet Under, Season 2

Nate:
What about you saying that things happen that leave marks … in people, in space, in time?

Brenda:
Yeah, that's physics. Energy affecting matter. Talking to dead people is delusional.

Nate:
So you definitely don't believe in any kind of a life after death?

Brenda:
I think people live on through the people they love and the things they do with their lives … if they manage to do things with their lives.

Nate:
But that's it, that's it? That's all there is, there's nothing more, there's nothing like bigger?

Brenda:
Just energy.

Nate:
But there's no plan, no-

Brenda:
No, there's definitely no plan. Just survival. Should I have ordered the salmon?

Nate:
Uh, I don't know. How can you live like that? I mean, what if you found out you were gonna die tomorrow?

Brenda:
I've been prepared to die tomorrow since I was six years old.

Nate:
Really?

Brenda:
Yeah, pretty much. We never got butter.

Nate:
Well, why, since you were six?

Brenda:
Because I read a report on the effect nuclear war would have on the world, and it was pretty clear to me at that point that this was definitely gonna happen.

Nate:
When you were six?

Brenda:
And I wake up every day pretty much surprised that, um … everything is still here.

Nate:
Well, I don't understand how you can live like that.

Brenda:
Well, I thought we all did.