Corpse Symbolism

So Far I have read up to the season one finale of Six feet Under: Scene Eleven: Ruth's Car.

(In the first season episodes I have read, Nate Fisher, has been sucked into the family business, only to be kept under his younger brothers thumb. Claire and Ruth Fisher are struggling with their disheveled mother daughter relationship. Ruth is also trying to forgive herself for cheating on Nathaniel while he was still alive. And David Fisher tries to find a balance between home and work, while being pressured by his boyfriend to come out to his family that he's gay and is also being stalked by an obsessed woman.)

I think Alan Ball most defiantly uses symbolism in his writing. The Six Feet Under episodes that I have just finished show many different uses of symbolism. The one that I think shows up the most and most clearly is the conversations the main characters have with corpses that the family business takes in. In the episodes I have read so far all of the main characters have to work their way through some kind crisis that they have discovered. I think that the dead bodies, or possibly, the souls of the deceased at as a conscience for whom ever they are talking to. A soul that occurs quite often is the soul of the dead father and husband of the Fisher family, Nathaniel. All of the main characters have spoken to Nathaniel so far. And every time they do it is to discuss a problem the other leading character is having to face. But what makes me think that the souls are more of a conscience, then a psychologist is how they talk in favor of the one they are speaking to. They talk as if they are talking with themselves.