Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "The Body"

Arguably the greatest television episode about death ever, the episode where Buffy’s mom dies is stark and uncompromising in forcing us to face the loss Buffy is going through. I’ve had friends watch this episode to cope with the real-life deaths of their mothers or other loved ones. With no music playing in the episode, there’s nothing to take you away from the reality of what’s happened, and peripheral characters like Tara (who talks about the death of her own mother) and Anya (who doesn’t know how to behave, or what it all means) help to illuminate the huge gaping hole in Buffy’s life. And then Anya says:

I don’t understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she’s- There’s just a body, and I don’t understand why she just can’t get back in it and not be dead anymore. It’s stupid. It’s mortal and stupid. And-and Xander’s crying and not talking, and-and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she’ll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.

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