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!
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.
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 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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!".
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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. 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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.
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! =)
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.
Hi., I am just some guy.,a few videos back, I wanted to say.,I would rather have a doctor, who secondguesses, and takes in more info, and ask a colleague, than one who is sure of themself, and might make a mistake!
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
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 😉
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.
"Is there something after death?" - there's a guy talking about this question all the time. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0POF7xeA-n8.html. Liked your reaction!
For me I just ask 'try to remember anything from before you were born'. Its the same when you sleep or get knocked out sth. Thats how it will be. I think its kind of a relief like that. There is nothing to imply anything more and why humans should be special. Especially when you know more on how the brain works and how your personality can change with damage to it. Imagine also going to some kinda afterlife that is completly horrible compare to what you imagine. Imagining heaven/sth after is for those that needs it to tackle dying.
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
After you die, you feel no more pain, you think no more thoughts. And for christans, per Isiah, their memories of earthly life will be erased. To me- that's no different than dying but they are either unaware of that or they think it's a good thing because they'll just be worshiping yahweh happily for eternity unconcerned about any friends, spouses, and relatives who didn't believe.
When we die, the amazing machine that we call a human stops. And the awesome emergent phenomenon we call consciousness stops, too. Death is the end. I like the idea of something coming after death, I much prefer reincarnation to an afterlife (or at least Nirvana instead of the abrahamic heaven), though. But I think all of that is just wishful thinking.
The only things that should touch a good steak are Butter, Salt, and Pepper. On very rare occassions, garlic of some sort, not visible, just essence. Bad steaks: sauces are ok.
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.
Hi Dr., do you have any recommendations on how to convince a loved to seek help? Let's say the suggestion has been made many times in overt and subtle ways that are quickly dismissed by the person who needs psychiatric help. Thank you
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.
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.
:) I forgot the blunt female doctor. The actor did a great job with that bit part. I doubt people will remember me after 40 years. Tho, some will as long as they use my minecraft mods.
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.
I just recently discovered one of the nicest people i work with follows alt right groups, is super elitist and looks down on anyone who isnt financially sufficient. Whenever I chat to them now and remember their view points i just shut up and let them rant.
Great reaction. I love your videos but I think you are missing the point of legacy. It’s not that you want to be remembered as a good person. It’s that good people and really bad people are remembered. Regardless of wether they want to be or not. I think it’s only natural to reflect on that especially at all he end of your life. Tying that in with things like colonization is actually demeaning to humanity at large. Each of us are individuals who deserve the dignity of that reflection.
I like to think when we die, part of our soul gets to go to heaven, and the other part gets another go around. Whether it’s a restart of the current life over and over until it’s done right, or traditional reincarnation where next time around i’ll be a dog or snail.
I am a woman of faith and I believe in Jesus and an afterlife. I also, never really understood needing to be remembered, there are so many people on this planet, why do I myself need some stellar legacy? So many fine people were lost to time but were still important, that’s life, I don’t mind the NPC life sometimes. We all do something for someone, no matter how insignificant.
Horseradiah sauce, cause my steak should bite back. My meaning of life is to leave the world a better place than how I found it, and a monument to my ego is not a benefit to anyone. There is something beautiful about how fading into obscurity can nourish future generations.
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
