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"
The Body
" is the sixteenth episode of
the fifth season
of the supernatural drama television series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
. Written and directed by series creator
Joss Whedon
, it originally aired on
The WB Television Network
in the United States on February?27, 2001. In the series,
Buffy Summers
is a teenager chosen by mystical forces and endowed with superhuman powers to defeat
vampires
, demons, and other evils in the fictional town of
Sunnydale
. In "The Body", Buffy discovers the body of her mother, who has died of a
brain aneurysm
. In the series Buffy and her friends deal with death every week, often in gruesome and fantastic ways, but in this episode they are bewildered by the natural death of Buffy's mother and struggle to comprehend what the loss means to them. Buffy must begin to face her life and her duties as the
Slayer
without parental support and comfort. "The Body" is regarded by many critics as one of the best episodes of the series. (
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