This episode strikes a chord with me. I've taught now for 22 years and I know that I've made an impact, but I'm not married and have no kids. There is a very good chance that I'll have nobody around when I do go. I hope there is somebody to be there if I go like George.
Scrubs always nails the “heart” part of great storytelling. If you can bring it home and make the audience feel and connect, it resonates. Really enjoying your videos and hearing about your real life experience. It really gives context of moments we’ve thought about, but haven’t had the experience yet. Thank you for being real and sharing, keep up the great videos!
I'm not a medical professional but a teacher and we did a task on the ''Before I die'' walls that have popped up around the world. I got them to write down what they would like to do before they died. One of the students asked me what I would put down. I honestly struggled to think of something. I kind of realised how grateful I am for what I have and had in my life. Gratitude is so valuable. Always enjoy your reactions. So many great episodes of Scrubs.
The most meaningful episode of Scrubs for me, and the best reaction to this episode yet, and I can really relate with you on so many points that you raise, chiefly with gratitude, and remembering when you wanted something that you now have; "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
I've also seen every reaction of this ep and I agree. The Jim Carey story was pretty crazy. I'm assuming he was in Hawaii? That's where that happened I think.
I watched my dad die in palliative care a week ago. It's true that pain is very well managed. He was given oxygen and some stuff for both pain and anxiety, He took 2 or 3 short, shallow breaths, and then he was gone. It was peaceful.
This episode gets me every time I watch it. George's reaction to dying is so familiar, because most of us have dealt with existential dread at one point or another; some of us have even been close to death, and had to consider what that might mean for us. It's terrifying. I think Scrubs did a really good job of breaking it down into segments, keeping it deep/serious, while also making it funny and heartwarming. I can only hope that my last thoughts are as cool as, "Hey man, that beer tasted great!".
I think the reason people want to do things so that they're remembered is so that they feel that their life had significance. They want to feel as if what they did on this earth with the short time they had had a big enough impact that even after they're not there to tell the world they existed, other people are willing to do that for them for whatever reason. Whether they do it for good reasons or bad reasons depends on the individual, but I can sort of understand why people want to do things to be remembered. Not only that, but if the things you do on this earth can lead to a proper example of how to live (Or how not to live, in regards to bad people), you can take solace in the fact that you managed to leave a real positive influence that people can follow for years to come. That being said, in my opinion, people who proudly state over and over again for EVERYONE to see that they want to be a good example tend to be not so great people. I say this because I feel they end up being so focused on telling people that they want to be a good example and not enough time BEING that good example. That's just my two cents, I loved your reaction!
Just a year ago...My brother was terminal for cancer...his wife called me on a Friday morning...I was on a flight that night and sat with him on Saturday morning...He was just so happy that his brother was there to sit with him on Saturday...helping him to the bathroom, watching TV and laughing. He died on Sunday, and it was expressly just Todd's wife and their 2 boys and a priest. But he was even in the end saying...my brother flew 1000 miles to be with me...and to show him how important he is.
Practicing gratitude really helped me with depression. I’ve grown out of practice tbh, I definitely need to start writing the things I’m grateful in a journal or something. I’m grateful to have another Scrubs reaction video and I’m grateful for your perspective on it!
Now maybe I'm just reading in to this way too far. Butttttt. I like the ending of your reaction. One minute you were there, and the next you were gone. And your last thought was a smile.
I recently saw a video interview of somebody who died briefly, and he mentioned his life flashed before his eyes then he had a sensation of darkness and complete peace. I find that so beautiful. I hope there's a life after death so I can hang out with my relatives and the animals I grew up with. However, imagining there's nothing but a flashback of your life followed by a feeling of absolute peace is comforting as well.
I enjoy your reactions to Scrubs. You seem to be a very smart and empathetic person, I'm sure your patients are glad to have you as their doctor. Keep it up and all the best to you!
I think the desire to be remembered is the extension of the desire to have “meant something” like you want there to be some evidence that people cared to exist after. If people remember you once your gone, you meant something alive. Maybe we have a hard time trusting our feelings of significance are reciprocated by others and the world.
Thanks for the great video! Love Scrubs and love your honest comments watching. Specifically, what an awesome outlook on no need to be remembered! (at 25:56) The moment I heard it, it clicked. Needing to be remembered may just be another symptom of the fear of not being enough. Accepting that we are enough, that we are okay the way we are, there is no need to be remembered. At least, that would be my interpretation. Thanks again!
Thanks for doing this episode! I was excited to see it drop, as I always am to see your stuff. Life after death....I dont know, I hope there is something, but I just do not know. And, just a good brown onion gravy! Yum.
Im not overly bothered about who likes or remembers me when im gone, as long as i can look in the mirror and like who i see deep down inside, then thats good enough for me.
Dr Syl is very Heath Ledger in this video. This is my 2nd favorite episode. I've watched the scrubs series so many times I've lost count. Your reaction is heart touching.
On the rembering part. For me personally I like to stick with "I would like to be remembered by the people that I care about" I think it's a nice middle ground between the two
I will be looking up Irvin Yalom, thank you for the recommendation. Enjoying the crap outta these vids! Your empathy and compassion really shines through. Grateful for your insights. Have a great summer all of you!
Thank you for choosing this one, in my top 3 for all of scrubs. Really like your thought process on needing to leave a legacy, It becomes a really interesting argument about morality. Whether the good deeds you do are to ascend to heaven or be remembered, or whether the reward is the joy you spread at the time, or if a reward is even needed. I wish I believed in an afterlife as the comfort of knowing that the hard times will be rewarded would really help during times when you need that extra bit of motivation to get through. Not too sure where I land in reality
This episode always makes me cry. I was going to man it up and say something like it always makes me "emotional" but nope it just always makes me cry. When he asks the guys if they would be there when he wakes up. Hell I am feeling it now just typing it.
30:10 to back up what you're saying during my mum's final couple of hours she was so doped up on morphine and I guess other drugs she barely even knew we were in the room except a few moments of lucidity. One of my sisters was running late to get there in time and every now and then my mum would ask "where is Rachel?". She eventually made it in time and it wasn't long before we were told we should go take a break and go get some rest. In that time she passed. I'll always laugh at one thing she said a couple of days beforehand to my dad who she'd seperated with years before "I was always fond of you, Ron. I just couldn't live with you". I still laugh at that over 20 years later.
I'm very late, and this is probably hopelessly naive, but I always think the best legacy is kindness. Doesn't have to be something big or grand, maybe just holding the door, letting someone pass first on a one person path, giving a genuine compliment, or just showing a friend or family appreciation. Do something kind. Hope it sends a ripple that spreads on, one act of kindness to the next. But it's ok if it doesn't, because you still tried. And hopefully, even if only for a fraction of a moment, you made someone elses day just a little bit brighter. Legacy doesn't have to last forever. Outside of extreme examples they never will. But a life improved is always worthwhile, even if it's a legacy that's gone in a moment, or never appreciated in the first place.
Nothing beats a good pepper sauce with steaks. Failing that a whiskey sauce is a really close second. - As for being in a different ward: I spent 22 days in a hospital in the UK being treated for viral meningoencephaitis. Now this is a neurological disorder but I spent most of my time in a gastroward. When I asked why, the doctor told me that at that stage what I had was "just" an infection and I guess they needed the practice dealing with infections like that. Of course, there was always a neurologist going through my numbers, stats and those things but the ward I was in was the gastroward.
Recent subscriber, but have really enjoyed your scrubs reactions. Would love to see more.Never worked in a hospital, but spent 28 years in the fire service and EMS, 14 of witch as a paramedic in the US. Really enjoyed hearing the differences in US Dr’s reactions as opposed to Dr’s in more social medicine settings…..Sorry for the further edit, but I had the experience/ honor of hearing my wife’s grandmother’s last heart beat. She was 100 years old and had gone to bed on a Saterday night, and never woke up. The entire family gathered late on Sunday and waited. As I was the one with the “medical” experience, I was called to the room when she stopped breathing. It took about 2 minutes for her heart to stop, and that experience still lives with/ haunts me to this day.
It’s 4 in the morning and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this episode and I’ve been balling my eyes out this whole episode and then you started and now I’m done. I’m dead. Done. I’m gone. 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sorry it's a late comment, but I have a condition called "peroneal nerve injury" (foot drop) and it's scary because I can fall over whenever. I love your content ❤ looked forward to more scrubs reaction is my favourite
Great choice of episodes. Nice to see you reacting to Scrubs again. I hope you are finding each day filled with good moments to remember and be thankful for
I personally don't want to necessarily be remembered or leave a legacy. I like to be invisible and for most people to not know I exist. But I love this episode so much.
Keanu Reeves answer to “what happens when you die” is probably the best I’ve ever heard: “I believe when you die that you will be missed by the ones that love you.” He was asked that by an audience member on a late night talk show while promoting one of the John Wick movies. And I like peppercorn sauce with my steak 😉
I like the idea of focusing on being grateful recently i had heart attack and i guess i sorta kinda technically died... twice. Im alive now and almost back to where i was before the heart attack (caused by a blood clot), and modern medicine being what it is it only took 4 weeks. But you know what if it that was it, i dont think i have ever taken a moment, outside of a relationship discussion, to focus on what im grateful for and to express that gratitude out into the world. I think i might take this month and just write something down each day that im grateful for, little things, silly things, meaningful things. just something every day.
Love your take on handling those difficult situations with end of life care, can't wait to see what you're going to react to next! Also, your microphone volume is very quiet in the video compared to the audio from the show and your intro.
I don't believe in an afterlife but that's why you make life worth living, it's why I've gone into health care (optics) helping people is possibly the most gratifying feeling ever. I don't need the threat of hell to try to be the most compassionate person I can be, it just feels great to be that way!
What an amazing Show! It is one of the best i've ever known, hands down. No other show manages being funny and deep simultainously in such an awesome way. Dr Syl does great reactions with interesting facts, knowledge and if you're lucky, maybe even a funny anecdote from a real life Doc . One day sadly, i will be gone too. I sure hope somebody enjoys an ice cold beer on my behalf... and then SHOOTS A FREAKING FLARE GUN ON A HOSPITAL ROOF TOP! What a way to be remembered! =)
What happens after death, we can't know. But my personal belief is that I will go into the same state of nothingness I was in before I was born. Death is certainly something I'd like to avoid as much as is reasonable, and I'd be lying if I said it doesn't scare me, but that's more around how I did than death itself. The idea that when I am dead, no one will care less than I do, is a comfort to me.
So... fun fact. The oxygen is not what would ignite and explode everything. It is not explosive, it is an oxidant (so needed for the fire reaction, but not the fuel itself). Rather, what I have seen when I treat people who smoke around their oxygen tanks is that the canula and tubing that is a soft plastic is a VERY good fuel and goes up pretty readily and is then increased to max potential by the O2 flowing through it... it makes for some pretty nasty burns. Also quite interesting when you are doing an internal search of a structure fire for survivors and come across a room full of huge bottles of O2. Again, not fuel, but when they breach there is no oxygen limit to the fire inside anymore and it is VERY impressive... not somewhere you want to be when it happens.
I was 27, and my husband was 30 when he died of kidney cancer back in 2013. None of his doctors (and he was in the military, so he had A LOT of doctors) EVER told us his cancer was terminal. After his first surgery to remove part of his kidney the surgeon came out to update me and I asked her what his exact type of cancer was called and after she told me I remember thinking I was never going to remember it but somehow I did and still do (renal medullary carcinoma). Anyway... of course I googled it and I kept the prognosis to myself for awhile thinking at some point one of the doctors who were trained in this type of situation would tell us he was going to die but they never did so eventually I told my husband. It was hard because he was VERY strong-willed and I never wanted him to think I was giving up on him or that he should give up but in the end I think maybe it was better that I was the one to tell him. I'm in the US, but I was wondering if it is normal for doctors to not give the patient a prognosis? I know everyone is different and even doctors can't predict the future but from what I read his type of cancer has a 0% survival rate (at least back in 2013) and is very rare so there's probably not a much research even being done on it.
Another thing... I've watched a lot of your reaction videos, and I've noticed you tear up quite a bit. Do you do that while dealing with patients, too? Definitely not judging at all. I think it would actually be refreshing to see a medical professional, especially a doctor, who shows such emotions ❤
Hey mate - loving and slightly addicted to the Scrubs reaction videos! Something which you didn't mention in this video was the pastoral care team and hospital chaplains. In my experience as a volunteer in my local hospital in Toowoomba, the care team were integral to the care of the patient. We know that the doctors frankly don't have time to sit by a bedside for hours on end, but the Pastoral Care team do regardless of religion/spirituality!
My mom died recently, and when I came to be there as she was passing she was pretty out of it. They took all of her tubes out and told us that she was feeling better at that moment than any of us ever would in our lives, let's hear it for the drugs.
You asked if i knew someone who was fake nice. Had an HR manager who who was bombastically nice then got incredibly rude and disrespectful towards others if you questioned her, even if she was in the wrong. One of absolute worst people I've ever seen be in a human resources job.
"I'm renting these atoms" is such an eloquent phrasing of exactly how i see my life too. I wanna leave the world that I can touch or influence better than i found it and i want to go back to the earth and my atoms will feed and become new life all over again. I'll never have this body or consciousness again but yeah. That's probably the extent of my belief in an afterlife. I've died a couple of times and been brought back and tbh i don't remember anything, so i can't relate to the bright light story. Was just black.
Such a great reaction. Thank you for sharing. I don't know if there's consciousness after death, but I like to think that if there is, it's peaceful and restful. Maybe we all return to the cosmic glue and have perfect community without ego or relationship. That would be nice.
I always think that if you don't believe in the afterlife you are working towards dead, yess you try living life to the fullest but with believing you can life in the moment. I believe in the afterlife and i enjoy all the good moments without thinking to much about dead
I'm Agnostic. The way the universe is so chaotic and yet the level of perfect coincidences to have me here happen makes me believe something created it but idk what it is/was. I also am pretty sure i have undiagnosed sleep apnea so i rarely reach R.E.M. sleep so i almost never dream or at least remember dreaming. I hope there is life after death but if not i figure itll be like sleeping for me just permanent.
Scrubs is one of my all time favorite shows. Season 3 Episode 15, after Ben’s death Cox calls JD Annaka, and I’ve never heard my name on another show besides pippy long-stocking…this is going to sound so stupid but we had to make the decision to let our cat go 2 weeks ago, and I’ve had this insurmountable grief occupying my mind since. I was grateful to the medical staff at the ER who explained the process just the same way this episode did. Our cat had congestive heart failure. This episode makes me cry every time. 😭
Great reaction, thank you :) You just need to watch every episode of this amazing show :D My next recommendation is 'My Way Home', Season 5 Episode 7 - it ends with Ted's Worthless Peeons/The Blanks singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, I know you had mentioned that before. Its also a great episode all together. But then again, there are basically no bad episodes, so
Thank you for recommending Irvin Yalom’s book. I downloaded it straight away, and read it in 2 days. So beautiful reading about love and loss and how those two are intertwined with hope and courage and acceptance. Especially in the context of observing my mum as we come up on the 1 year anniversary of my dads death. I was glad to have another perspective to help understand more of her journey. Also having worked in palliative care, it was humbling to hear someone described their final weeks so vulnerability and courageously. I’m now reading a book by Marilyn about the French Revolution; very appropriate I think for the day before Bastille Day. I’m wondering why I didn’t get to read these accounts when I was doing my year 12 Revolutions studies. Anyway, thanks for your thoughts and comments. I look forward to coming across more of your videos.
hey hey! Hi Dr. Syl I absolutely LOVE this episode. I remember first time watching it, it really hit and got the waterworks going. Great review! Glad you picked this episode 😊
Personally, I have never really understood the worry to be remembered after death. I have had several friends say that is their worst fear. They worded it more like,"I don't want be forgotten." No one truly knows what comes after death so it doesn't seem like something worth worrying about to me. We may not even be able to acknowledge what was left behind. I think its best to find good people and be your best for each other throughout your life. When the time comes, those that are closest to you will remember you for the happy times, experiences, and lessons you gave them.
"I don't fear death, it's the dying that scares me." I keep that in the back of my mind pretty much all the time. Death is the one true inevitability. We all die, everything has it's time and everything has to go, you cannot get out of it alive. I just hope it's a quiet one. Or quick if it comes to that. I don't want to worry about lingering, I want to find out what comes next when that time comes.
If you are still doing reaction videos for "Scrubs", I would recommend kind of a 2-parter... "My No Good Reason" and "My Long Goodbye." Both are Season 6 and especially "My Long Goodbye" is pretty much a whole episode long gut punch. But "My No Good Reason" focuses a lot on religion and beliefs and the importance of having faith. (But it is hard to talk about one without including the other as well).
My current job I work the arvo shift. After 4pm the bosses go home. There's one guy who goes out of his way to be nice to me but I have a theory as to why that is. He's a bludger and he feels if he befriends me I'll put up with him slacking and not tell the managers. Only been there 6 weeks and I'm already sick of him
I believe that the reason Turk and J.D. are in the same area of the hospital is because they are both off the clock and they met up in the same area of the hospital to go to Steak Night together, otherwise, they would be working in different areas of the hospital.
I've actually heard some people say that music is pointless in film/tv shows/games and it's like without Death Cab For Cutie playing over the final scene of this episode I don't think I would of even so much as gotten choked up, but for some reason a song about being with someone when they die over a scene of people being there for someone when they die makes me so choked up I can't swallow. Music helps make things more personal. A sad song helps you connect to a sad scene by dredging up moments of personal loss to relate to.
This is my second favorite episode. I watched it a lot when my father went to palliative care. Eventually he died in my arms from a pulmonary embolism despite having several advanced cancers. I was a mess after for about 5 months, and my minor alcoholism jumped to major alcoholism. Still, I think this episode helped. I've been sober for five years now. George reminds me very much of my Dad. Especially the "I think I just saw the Devil" line. Steak: Mushroom sauce with some spicy thing on it. Truth be told, i prefer pork chops and fish lol. I love Ted in this episode. What happens after death: Obviously, I don't know. I'm a practicing pagan who incorporated a lot of Norse mythology, Taoism, shamanism, and Catholic mysticism into what I do. I hunt and fish primarily because it puts me closer to my sense of spirit. Since I was 9, I've prayed over everything I've killed, including fish, asking for their forgiveness, and reminding me and it, life can only exist because of death. That applies even if vegan. If you've ever seen the movie, "Eric the Viking", I like to think it works like that; whatever you believed in, is what happens. There's a wonderful series at the end of the movie where they die, the Christian among them can't see what their seeing which is Odin's Hall; Valhalla. He's in a black void. When he sees the Gates of Heaven, the Vikings can't see it and are in the black void. To an extent, i believe in reincarnation, not really from a religion base, but because of conservation of energy and matter. Basically, anyone and anything that had died 30ish years before you, you have at least one of their atoms. That's my view of reincarnation most days lol. Amd for reference, I grew up a borderline fundamentalist Protestant Evangelical Christian. Answering being remembered: It's physically impossible. But, in the classical Greek stance, can be done. Achilles, Hector, Xynophon, Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, Joshua, Asoka the Great, Lao Tzu, Harald Hadrada, we remember them, therefore, they're immortal. It's not the dying I'm afraid of, it's the change. The Jim Carrey story reminds me of Mike's death in Breaking Bad. And you, dear Doctor, I love that you cried and didn't edit it out. Love you. Deity of your choice bless you.😊
Hi, discovered your account from your react to Soft White Underbelly videos and I'd love more of those! There are so many heartbreaking stories on there that I'd love a deeper dive from someone like you!
Omg! Last time I had to go to minor injuries for a knee injury, I had a triage nurse just like that Jo character at the beginning! 😅 she put me soo on edge that I started shaking with nerves 🙈 made me feel like I was wasting her time being there.....but I left with crutches in the end so at least it means I was meant to be there 😅👍
I don't know about shooting flares but road flares are available. Usually at highway convenience stores away from town tho, not in town. Oh! I bet their convenience store is by the docks.
Had a boss once who everybody loved because she was "so kind.. sweet...cute.....friendly" who treated me horribly, but never in front of others. So when I spoke up, I was the monster, talking "lies" about the "innocent" person, how dare I? Worst part is, I know she wasn't doing her job, and her "orders" were always oral, never written, so we couldn't prove it when she said one thing to two of us, and another to the rest...., but she got away with it. Now, years later, some of the others are juuuust barely starting to admit one thing "she didn't know what she was doing", but they still see her as a martyr of my evil. Scary. I wonder if she is doing the same thing elsewhere. As for the need to be remembered: I never felt that need. I mean, the people that I don't have a close relationship with I don't expect to remember me, and for those few I am close to, I would sort of want them to not remember me and get on with their lives. * shrugs * Maybe it is because I spent so much of my life with low self esteem that I sort of never expected anybody to notice
I don't know how anyone can work in palliative care. I know I couldn't do it. I remember watching my uncle waste away thinking those people were angels.
If my near dearh experience is anything like what it's like to actually die, I'm not really afraid. All I want is to be doing or remembering something love.
Even though JD's final advice is simple and silly, I find a lot of comfort in it. I served as a US infantryman for 21 years, with 57 months of that deployed to what the US qualifies as 'combat zones'. I've been blown up three times and almost caught a sniper round in 2004 in Samara. Even without those incidents, I should have been dead many times over due to stupid choices on my own and with friends. Even if there is nothing after this plane of existence, simply living a 'good life' and having your last thought be something in a similar vein, I find some odd form of comfort in that.
The actor playing George always impresses me. He absolutely makes this one of the most emotional episodes of _Scrubs._
Glynn Thurman, and he's wonderful.
One of my favorite Scrubs' episodes. Really hit home the fact that most people are afraid of dying even Doctors. Loved the reaction.
This episode strikes a chord with me. I've taught now for 22 years and I know that I've made an impact, but I'm not married and have no kids. There is a very good chance that I'll have nobody around when I do go. I hope there is somebody to be there if I go like George.
Lastly, thank you for your honest reaction! The quiet wipe away of tears, is what we all felt at the final moments of George's life.
Scrub is a show where you can laugh and cry in the same episode and you can watch the show over and over and never get bored
Glynn Turman is a fantastic actor. This entire episode is wonderful.
Scrubs always nails the “heart” part of great storytelling. If you can bring it home and make the audience feel and connect, it resonates. Really enjoying your videos and hearing about your real life experience. It really gives context of moments we’ve thought about, but haven’t had the experience yet. Thank you for being real and sharing, keep up the great videos!
I'm not a medical professional but a teacher and we did a task on the ''Before I die'' walls that have popped up around the world. I got them to write down what they would like to do before they died. One of the students asked me what I would put down. I honestly struggled to think of something. I kind of realised how grateful I am for what I have and had in my life. Gratitude is so valuable. Always enjoy your reactions. So many great episodes of Scrubs.
The most meaningful episode of Scrubs for me, and the best reaction to this episode yet, and I can really relate with you on so many points that you raise, chiefly with gratitude, and remembering when you wanted something that you now have; "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
I've also seen every reaction of this ep and I agree. The Jim Carey story was pretty crazy. I'm assuming he was in Hawaii? That's where that happened I think.
I watched my dad die in palliative care a week ago. It's true that pain is very well managed. He was given oxygen and some stuff for both pain and anxiety, He took 2 or 3 short, shallow breaths, and then he was gone. It was peaceful.
I'm sorry for your loss. Take care 🌻
This episode gets me every time I watch it. George's reaction to dying is so familiar, because most of us have dealt with existential dread at one point or another; some of us have even been close to death, and had to consider what that might mean for us. It's terrifying. I think Scrubs did a really good job of breaking it down into segments, keeping it deep/serious, while also making it funny and heartwarming.
I can only hope that my last thoughts are as cool as, "Hey man, that beer tasted great!".
I think the reason people want to do things so that they're remembered is so that they feel that their life had significance. They want to feel as if what they did on this earth with the short time they had had a big enough impact that even after they're not there to tell the world they existed, other people are willing to do that for them for whatever reason.
Whether they do it for good reasons or bad reasons depends on the individual, but I can sort of understand why people want to do things to be remembered. Not only that, but if the things you do on this earth can lead to a proper example of how to live (Or how not to live, in regards to bad people), you can take solace in the fact that you managed to leave a real positive influence that people can follow for years to come.
That being said, in my opinion, people who proudly state over and over again for EVERYONE to see that they want to be a good example tend to be not so great people. I say this because I feel they end up being so focused on telling people that they want to be a good example and not enough time BEING that good example. That's just my two cents, I loved your reaction!
Just a year ago...My brother was terminal for cancer...his wife called me on a Friday morning...I was on a flight that night and sat with him on Saturday morning...He was just so happy that his brother was there to sit with him on Saturday...helping him to the bathroom, watching TV and laughing. He died on Sunday, and it was expressly just Todd's wife and their 2 boys and a priest. But he was even in the end saying...my brother flew 1000 miles to be with me...and to show him how important he is.
Practicing gratitude really helped me with depression. I’ve grown out of practice tbh, I definitely need to start writing the things I’m grateful in a journal or something. I’m grateful to have another Scrubs reaction video and I’m grateful for your perspective on it!
Now maybe I'm just reading in to this way too far. Butttttt. I like the ending of your reaction. One minute you were there, and the next you were gone. And your last thought was a smile.
I recently saw a video interview of somebody who died briefly, and he mentioned his life flashed before his eyes then he had a sensation of darkness and complete peace. I find that so beautiful. I hope there's a life after death so I can hang out with my relatives and the animals I grew up with. However, imagining there's nothing but a flashback of your life followed by a feeling of absolute peace is comforting as well.
I’m so glad you picked this one! I’ve been wanting someone to react to it
I enjoy your reactions to Scrubs. You seem to be a very smart and empathetic person, I'm sure your patients are glad to have you as their doctor. Keep it up and all the best to you!
That season of Scrubs is notorious for not being very good, *BUT* it has this episode and always gets bonus points.
Oh yes, another episode to consider is the 100th episode of the show, 'My Way Home'. A great one! With an interesting theme throughout!
A very touching episode of scrubs ☺ The song at the end is beautiful
I got scared I thought you meant this was your last video
If you keep watching, I keep making!
Gratitude, I needed the reminder too, thank you 🙏
I think the desire to be remembered is the extension of the desire to have “meant something” like you want there to be some evidence that people cared to exist after. If people remember you once your gone, you meant something alive. Maybe we have a hard time trusting our feelings of significance are reciprocated by others and the world.
Thanks for the great video! Love Scrubs and love your honest comments watching. Specifically, what an awesome outlook on no need to be remembered! (at 25:56) The moment I heard it, it clicked. Needing to be remembered may just be another symptom of the fear of not being enough. Accepting that we are enough, that we are okay the way we are, there is no need to be remembered. At least, that would be my interpretation. Thanks again!
Thanks for doing this episode! I was excited to see it drop, as I always am to see your stuff.
Life after death....I dont know, I hope there is something, but I just do not know.
And, just a good brown onion gravy! Yum.
Im not overly bothered about who likes or remembers me when im gone, as long as i can look in the mirror and like who i see deep down inside, then thats good enough for me.
Im glad to know people like you exist. You are a moral guided person worthy of the title of healer.
Dr Syl is very Heath Ledger in this video.
This is my 2nd favorite episode.
I've watched the scrubs series so many times I've lost count.
Your reaction is heart touching.
On the rembering part. For me personally I like to stick with "I would like to be remembered by the people that I care about" I think it's a nice middle ground between the two
Scrubs always had first rate songs. I especially love when Colin Hay is part of the soundtrack.
This is one a lot of people miss, so thank you for putting it out there. Always like your SCRUBS reactions.
I will be looking up Irvin Yalom, thank you for the recommendation. Enjoying the crap outta these vids! Your empathy and compassion really shines through. Grateful for your insights. Have a great summer all of you!
Thank you for choosing this one, in my top 3 for all of scrubs.
Really like your thought process on needing to leave a legacy, It becomes a really interesting argument about morality. Whether the good deeds you do are to ascend to heaven or be remembered, or whether the reward is the joy you spread at the time, or if a reward is even needed.
I wish I believed in an afterlife as the comfort of knowing that the hard times will be rewarded would really help during times when you need that extra bit of motivation to get through.
Not too sure where I land in reality
Seeing Dr Syl's heart breaking as I Will Follow You Into The Dark kicks in, just shows how good SCRUBS were at picking the music for their scenes.
I’ve added it to my daily playlist haha
The music was mostly chosen by Christa Miller who plays Jordan and is the creator's wife!
Great reaction and commentary, especially what you said about gratitude.
First time I heard Death Cab for Cutie's 'I Will Follow You into the Dark' was in this episode. I still can't hear it without tearing up.
This episode always makes me cry. I was going to man it up and say something like it always makes me "emotional" but nope it just always makes me cry. When he asks the guys if they would be there when he wakes up. Hell I am feeling it now just typing it.
30:10 to back up what you're saying during my mum's final couple of hours she was so doped up on morphine and I guess other drugs she barely even knew we were in the room except a few moments of lucidity. One of my sisters was running late to get there in time and every now and then my mum would ask "where is Rachel?". She eventually made it in time and it wasn't long before we were told we should go take a break and go get some rest. In that time she passed.
I'll always laugh at one thing she said a couple of days beforehand to my dad who she'd seperated with years before "I was always fond of you, Ron. I just couldn't live with you". I still laugh at that over 20 years later.
I'm very late, and this is probably hopelessly naive, but I always think the best legacy is kindness. Doesn't have to be something big or grand, maybe just holding the door, letting someone pass first on a one person path, giving a genuine compliment, or just showing a friend or family appreciation. Do something kind. Hope it sends a ripple that spreads on, one act of kindness to the next. But it's ok if it doesn't, because you still tried. And hopefully, even if only for a fraction of a moment, you made someone elses day just a little bit brighter.
Legacy doesn't have to last forever. Outside of extreme examples they never will. But a life improved is always worthwhile, even if it's a legacy that's gone in a moment, or never appreciated in the first place.
3:21 that's Dr. Cox playing the guy who will never walk again
Wow ! I love these reaction videos , please make more scrubs reactions ❤
Nothing beats a good pepper sauce with steaks. Failing that a whiskey sauce is a really close second. - As for being in a different ward: I spent 22 days in a hospital in the UK being treated for viral meningoencephaitis. Now this is a neurological disorder but I spent most of my time in a gastroward. When I asked why, the doctor told me that at that stage what I had was "just" an infection and I guess they needed the practice dealing with infections like that. Of course, there was always a neurologist going through my numbers, stats and those things but the ward I was in was the gastroward.
Really love your content.. I hope I'll be a doctor of Australia soon❤❤.. You're the inspiration
Even watching this as a reaction to the episode still made me teary eyed
Recent subscriber, but have really enjoyed your scrubs reactions. Would love to see more.Never worked in a hospital, but spent 28 years in the fire service and EMS, 14 of witch as a paramedic in the US. Really enjoyed hearing the differences in US Dr’s reactions as opposed to Dr’s in more social medicine settings…..Sorry for the further edit, but I had the experience/ honor of hearing my wife’s grandmother’s last heart beat. She was 100 years old and had gone to bed on a Saterday night, and never woke up. The entire family gathered late on Sunday and waited. As I was the one with the “medical” experience, I was called to the room when she stopped breathing. It took about 2 minutes for her heart to stop, and that experience still lives with/ haunts me to this day.
It’s 4 in the morning and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this episode and I’ve been balling my eyes out this whole episode and then you started and now I’m done. I’m dead. Done. I’m gone. 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sorry it's a late comment, but I have a condition called "peroneal nerve injury" (foot drop) and it's scary because I can fall over whenever. I love your content ❤ looked forward to more scrubs reaction is my favourite
You have an interesting belief about life and death, it's kinda nice hearing something different from the usual stuff that's drilled into us
Great choice of episodes. Nice to see you reacting to Scrubs again. I hope you are finding each day filled with good moments to remember and be thankful for
I personally don't want to necessarily be remembered or leave a legacy. I like to be invisible and for most people to not know I exist. But I love this episode so much.
Keanu Reeves answer to “what happens when you die” is probably the best I’ve ever heard: “I believe when you die that you will be missed by the ones that love you.”
He was asked that by an audience member on a late night talk show while promoting one of the John Wick movies.
And I like peppercorn sauce with my steak 😉
I've been waiting for a long time for the reaction to this specific episode. You delivered as usual. Thanks.
Steak: No mushrooms. It should be well seasoned and cooked enough to not need sauce. But, if it is dry then A1 sauce.
I like the idea of focusing on being grateful recently i had heart attack and i guess i sorta kinda technically died... twice. Im alive now and almost back to where i was before the heart attack (caused by a blood clot), and modern medicine being what it is it only took 4 weeks. But you know what if it that was it, i dont think i have ever taken a moment, outside of a relationship discussion, to focus on what im grateful for and to express that gratitude out into the world. I think i might take this month and just write something down each day that im grateful for, little things, silly things, meaningful things. just something every day.
“14 billion years ago, we were hanging out” I knew you looked familiar!🤣
Thank you for doing this episode. I was very touched by your reaction.
Love your take on handling those difficult situations with end of life care, can't wait to see what you're going to react to next!
Also, your microphone volume is very quiet in the video compared to the audio from the show and your intro.
I don't believe in an afterlife but that's why you make life worth living, it's why I've gone into health care (optics) helping people is possibly the most gratifying feeling ever. I don't need the threat of hell to try to be the most compassionate person I can be, it just feels great to be that way!
A very humane reaction.
What an amazing Show! It is one of the best i've ever known, hands down. No other show manages being funny and deep simultainously in such an awesome way. Dr Syl does great reactions with interesting facts, knowledge and if you're lucky, maybe even a funny anecdote from a real life Doc . One day sadly, i will be gone too. I sure hope somebody enjoys an ice cold beer on my behalf... and then SHOOTS A FREAKING FLARE GUN ON A HOSPITAL ROOF TOP! What a way to be remembered! =)
Impossible not to cry in this episode
Haha....great "cameo" of Cox and Miller to reference Couger Town
What happens after death, we can't know. But my personal belief is that I will go into the same state of nothingness I was in before I was born. Death is certainly something I'd like to avoid as much as is reasonable, and I'd be lying if I said it doesn't scare me, but that's more around how I did than death itself. The idea that when I am dead, no one will care less than I do, is a comfort to me.
So... fun fact. The oxygen is not what would ignite and explode everything. It is not explosive, it is an oxidant (so needed for the fire reaction, but not the fuel itself). Rather, what I have seen when I treat people who smoke around their oxygen tanks is that the canula and tubing that is a soft plastic is a VERY good fuel and goes up pretty readily and is then increased to max potential by the O2 flowing through it... it makes for some pretty nasty burns.
Also quite interesting when you are doing an internal search of a structure fire for survivors and come across a room full of huge bottles of O2. Again, not fuel, but when they breach there is no oxygen limit to the fire inside anymore and it is VERY impressive... not somewhere you want to be when it happens.
Phenomenal episode, happy you reacted to it! Cannot wait for you to see season 5 episode 4, My Jiggly Ball
I was 27, and my husband was 30 when he died of kidney cancer back in 2013. None of his doctors (and he was in the military, so he had A LOT of doctors) EVER told us his cancer was terminal. After his first surgery to remove part of his kidney the surgeon came out to update me and I asked her what his exact type of cancer was called and after she told me I remember thinking I was never going to remember it but somehow I did and still do (renal medullary carcinoma). Anyway... of course I googled it and I kept the prognosis to myself for awhile thinking at some point one of the doctors who were trained in this type of situation would tell us he was going to die but they never did so eventually I told my husband. It was hard because he was VERY strong-willed and I never wanted him to think I was giving up on him or that he should give up but in the end I think maybe it was better that I was the one to tell him. I'm in the US, but I was wondering if it is normal for doctors to not give the patient a prognosis? I know everyone is different and even doctors can't predict the future but from what I read his type of cancer has a 0% survival rate (at least back in 2013) and is very rare so there's probably not a much research even being done on it.
Another thing... I've watched a lot of your reaction videos, and I've noticed you tear up quite a bit. Do you do that while dealing with patients, too? Definitely not judging at all. I think it would actually be refreshing to see a medical professional, especially a doctor, who shows such emotions ❤
Hey mate - loving and slightly addicted to the Scrubs reaction videos! Something which you didn't mention in this video was the pastoral care team and hospital chaplains. In my experience as a volunteer in my local hospital in Toowoomba, the care team were integral to the care of the patient. We know that the doctors frankly don't have time to sit by a bedside for hours on end, but the Pastoral Care team do regardless of religion/spirituality!
My mom died recently, and when I came to be there as she was passing she was pretty out of it. They took all of her tubes out and told us that she was feeling better at that moment than any of us ever would in our lives, let's hear it for the drugs.
You asked if i knew someone who was fake nice. Had an HR manager who who was bombastically nice then got incredibly rude and disrespectful towards others if you questioned her, even if she was in the wrong.
One of absolute worst people I've ever seen be in a human resources job.
"I'm renting these atoms" is such an eloquent phrasing of exactly how i see my life too. I wanna leave the world that I can touch or influence better than i found it and i want to go back to the earth and my atoms will feed and become new life all over again. I'll never have this body or consciousness again but yeah. That's probably the extent of my belief in an afterlife. I've died a couple of times and been brought back and tbh i don't remember anything, so i can't relate to the bright light story. Was just black.
Such a great reaction. Thank you for sharing. I don't know if there's consciousness after death, but I like to think that if there is, it's peaceful and restful. Maybe we all return to the cosmic glue and have perfect community without ego or relationship. That would be nice.
I always think that if you don't believe in the afterlife you are working towards dead, yess you try living life to the fullest but with believing you can life in the moment. I believe in the afterlife and i enjoy all the good moments without thinking to much about dead
I'm Agnostic. The way the universe is so chaotic and yet the level of perfect coincidences to have me here happen makes me believe something created it but idk what it is/was.
I also am pretty sure i have undiagnosed sleep apnea so i rarely reach R.E.M. sleep so i almost never dream or at least remember dreaming.
I hope there is life after death but if not i figure itll be like sleeping for me just permanent.
Scrubs makes me cry a lot but THAT ONE is a gut punch to my soul
Scrubs is one of my all time favorite shows. Season 3 Episode 15, after Ben’s death Cox calls JD Annaka, and I’ve never heard my name on another show besides pippy long-stocking…this is going to sound so stupid but we had to make the decision to let our cat go 2 weeks ago, and I’ve had this insurmountable grief occupying my mind since. I was grateful to the medical staff at the ER who explained the process just the same way this episode did. Our cat had congestive heart failure. This episode makes me cry every time. 😭
Do the one about the butterfly effect.
A lot happens after death, we just aren’t there to experience it.
Great reaction, thank you :)
You just need to watch every episode of this amazing show :D
My next recommendation is 'My Way Home', Season 5 Episode 7 - it ends with Ted's Worthless Peeons/The Blanks singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, I know you had mentioned that before. Its also a great episode all together. But then again, there are basically no bad episodes, so
Thank you for recommending Irvin Yalom’s book. I downloaded it straight away, and read it in 2 days. So beautiful reading about love and loss and how those two are intertwined with hope and courage and acceptance. Especially in the context of observing my mum as we come up on the 1 year anniversary of my dads death. I was glad to have another perspective to help understand more of her journey. Also having worked in palliative care, it was humbling to hear someone described their final weeks so vulnerability and courageously.
I’m now reading a book by Marilyn about the French Revolution; very appropriate I think for the day before Bastille Day. I’m wondering why I didn’t get to read these accounts when I was doing my year 12 Revolutions studies. Anyway, thanks for your thoughts and comments. I look forward to coming across more of your videos.
hey hey! Hi Dr. Syl
I absolutely LOVE this episode. I remember first time watching it, it really hit and got the waterworks going. Great review! Glad you picked this episode 😊
Personally, I have never really understood the worry to be remembered after death. I have had several friends say that is their worst fear. They worded it more like,"I don't want be forgotten." No one truly knows what comes after death so it doesn't seem like something worth worrying about to me. We may not even be able to acknowledge what was left behind. I think its best to find good people and be your best for each other throughout your life. When the time comes, those that are closest to you will remember you for the happy times, experiences, and lessons you gave them.
Great thoughts about life and death.
Thanks, doctor
"I don't fear death, it's the dying that scares me." I keep that in the back of my mind pretty much all the time. Death is the one true inevitability. We all die, everything has it's time and everything has to go, you cannot get out of it alive. I just hope it's a quiet one. Or quick if it comes to that. I don't want to worry about lingering, I want to find out what comes next when that time comes.
Our old atoms will probably eventually be crammed together again.
If you are still doing reaction videos for "Scrubs", I would recommend kind of a 2-parter... "My No Good Reason" and "My Long Goodbye." Both are Season 6 and especially "My Long Goodbye" is pretty much a whole episode long gut punch. But "My No Good Reason" focuses a lot on religion and beliefs and the importance of having faith. (But it is hard to talk about one without including the other as well).
My current job I work the arvo shift. After 4pm the bosses go home. There's one guy who goes out of his way to be nice to me but I have a theory as to why that is. He's a bludger and he feels if he befriends me I'll put up with him slacking and not tell the managers. Only been there 6 weeks and I'm already sick of him
I believe that the reason Turk and J.D. are in the same area of the hospital is because they are both off the clock and they met up in the same area of the hospital to go to Steak Night together, otherwise, they would be working in different areas of the hospital.
What happens when the nurse goes to sit back down and ends up with a tailbone fracture from hitting the floor?
@@AndrewSmootshe’s in a hospital, she’ll be alright.
I've actually heard some people say that music is pointless in film/tv shows/games and it's like without Death Cab For Cutie playing over the final scene of this episode I don't think I would of even so much as gotten choked up, but for some reason a song about being with someone when they die over a scene of people being there for someone when they die makes me so choked up I can't swallow. Music helps make things more personal. A sad song helps you connect to a sad scene by dredging up moments of personal loss to relate to.
If you haven't seen the Quarantine episode of Scrubs....OMG, it was hilarious. Would love yo see your reaction to that episode.
Gosh. I love this gorgeous man. Lol. Great reaction. Love Scrubs.
This is my second favorite episode. I watched it a lot when my father went to palliative care. Eventually he died in my arms from a pulmonary embolism despite having several advanced cancers. I was a mess after for about 5 months, and my minor alcoholism jumped to major alcoholism. Still, I think this episode helped. I've been sober for five years now. George reminds me very much of my Dad. Especially the "I think I just saw the Devil" line.
Steak: Mushroom sauce with some spicy thing on it. Truth be told, i prefer pork chops and fish lol.
I love Ted in this episode.
What happens after death: Obviously, I don't know. I'm a practicing pagan who incorporated a lot of Norse mythology, Taoism, shamanism, and Catholic mysticism into what I do. I hunt and fish primarily because it puts me closer to my sense of spirit. Since I was 9, I've prayed over everything I've killed, including fish, asking for their forgiveness, and reminding me and it, life can only exist because of death. That applies even if vegan. If you've ever seen the movie, "Eric the Viking", I like to think it works like that; whatever you believed in, is what happens. There's a wonderful series at the end of the movie where they die, the Christian among them can't see what their seeing which is Odin's Hall; Valhalla. He's in a black void. When he sees the Gates of Heaven, the Vikings can't see it and are in the black void. To an extent, i believe in reincarnation, not really from a religion base, but because of conservation of energy and matter. Basically, anyone and anything that had died 30ish years before you, you have at least one of their atoms. That's my view of reincarnation most days lol. Amd for reference, I grew up a borderline fundamentalist Protestant Evangelical Christian.
Answering being remembered: It's physically impossible. But, in the classical Greek stance, can be done. Achilles, Hector, Xynophon, Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, Joshua, Asoka the Great, Lao Tzu, Harald Hadrada, we remember them, therefore, they're immortal.
It's not the dying I'm afraid of, it's the change.
The Jim Carrey story reminds me of Mike's death in Breaking Bad.
And you, dear Doctor, I love that you cried and didn't edit it out. Love you. Deity of your choice bless you.😊
Hi, discovered your account from your react to Soft White Underbelly videos and I'd love more of those! There are so many heartbreaking stories on there that I'd love a deeper dive from someone like you!
Omg! Last time I had to go to minor injuries for a knee injury, I had a triage nurse just like that Jo character at the beginning! 😅 she put me soo on edge that I started shaking with nerves 🙈 made me feel like I was wasting her time being there.....but I left with crutches in the end so at least it means I was meant to be there 😅👍
I don't know about shooting flares but road flares are available. Usually at highway convenience stores away from town tho, not in town. Oh! I bet their convenience store is by the docks.
Had a boss once who everybody loved because she was "so kind.. sweet...cute.....friendly" who treated me horribly, but never in front of others. So when I spoke up, I was the monster, talking "lies" about the "innocent" person, how dare I? Worst part is, I know she wasn't doing her job, and her "orders" were always oral, never written, so we couldn't prove it when she said one thing to two of us, and another to the rest...., but she got away with it. Now, years later, some of the others are juuuust barely starting to admit one thing "she didn't know what she was doing", but they still see her as a martyr of my evil. Scary. I wonder if she is doing the same thing elsewhere.
As for the need to be remembered: I never felt that need. I mean, the people that I don't have a close relationship with I don't expect to remember me, and for those few I am close to, I would sort of want them to not remember me and get on with their lives. * shrugs * Maybe it is because I spent so much of my life with low self esteem that I sort of never expected anybody to notice
I don't know how anyone can work in palliative care. I know I couldn't do it. I remember watching my uncle waste away thinking those people were angels.
If my near dearh experience is anything like what it's like to actually die, I'm not really afraid. All I want is to be doing or remembering something love.
See you next mission, George.
Even though JD's final advice is simple and silly, I find a lot of comfort in it. I served as a US infantryman for 21 years, with 57 months of that deployed to what the US qualifies as 'combat zones'. I've been blown up three times and almost caught a sniper round in 2004 in Samara. Even without those incidents, I should have been dead many times over due to stupid choices on my own and with friends.
Even if there is nothing after this plane of existence, simply living a 'good life' and having your last thought be something in a similar vein, I find some odd form of comfort in that.