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Backstage as HBO's `Six Feet Under' begins its second season.(The Dallas Morning News)

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| March 01, 2002 | Mendoza, Manuel | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. _ Nate Fisher is imagining the aftermath of his death, projecting his fears onto a widow in his family's funeral parlor. As the widow's three children clasp her black dress tightly, he sees his girlfriend Brenda take the grieving woman's place.

This fantasy scene _ from the second season of HBO's "Six Feet Under," premiering Sunday night _ is being shot on a January morning on Stage 7 at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood.

A casket display wall, newly installed by the Fishers to drum up business, features such models as the "Camry" and the "Cameo Rose." In the curtained wisteria room, where deals for the overpriced boxes are closed and the overly distraught are whisked to mourn in private, everything from the Victorian furniture to the dark wood looks embalmed.

The prep room, located on adjacent Stage 3, is even more antiseptic, a sanitized version of Frankenstein's office. Two porcelain tables for the dead lie sit side by side, right next to medicine cabinets filled with "solutions."

Nate is looking for one, too.

"I'd like to ask you some questions about death, from a Jewish point of view," he says to the beautiful female rabbi presiding at the funeral.

Since last year, "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball, the Academy-Award-winning writer of American Beauty, has been raising similar questions about ...

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