Dead Like Me

Dead Like Me was a hit TV comedy/drama in 2003 and 2004.

The show follows the life (and death) of eighteen year old Georgia “George” Lass.

The first episode of Dead Like Me begins with an unfortunate accident killing Georgia and goes on to follow her new life as a grim reaper.

Dead Like Me ran for 2 seasons, leaving many unanswered questions at the end.

A good description of the show, taken from IMDB, rewriten by Pat McCurry:

Meet Georgia Lass (who prefers to be called George). She is a young Seattle college dropout who is unhappy with life. She is always at odds with her mom, Joy. One day coming back from her temp job as a filing clerk, she is hit by the toliet seat of the re-entering Space Station Mir. Finding out she is now dead, she is recruited to become a grim reaper. As in life, she is a pain in the butt in death. She does not like the details of her job, and is always at loggerheads with her boss Rube. Her fellow grim reapers don’t really take much of a liking to her either. She also learns grim reapers don’t even get a free ride in death, as they must hold down regular jobs along with their death duties. 

Here is the Synopsis from the offical Dead Like Me Movie Site (link):

Twenty-something protagonist George is a grim reaper: her job is to take people’s souls just before they die and escort them into the afterlife.  George and her fellow reapers are “undead” – humans who have died but must serve time before passing on to the next world.  Reapers look and live like ordinary humans – they eat, have day jobs, etc. – but their physical appearances are different from when they were living, so their friends and loved ones do not recognize them.

Reapers work for Death and are given harvesting assignments.  Failure to comply can have dire consequences – innocent lives may be lost, and uncollected souls can painfully wither and die.  Reaping assignments are often tricky and can be complicated by the presence of Gravelings – gremlin-like creatures that cause accidental deaths and are invisible to humans.  George‚Äôs fellow Reapers are Roxy, a no-nonsense cop with an attitude; Mason, a harmless, horny slacker; and Daisy, a sweet-natured drama queen.  Their banter is snappy and leans towards put-downs and sexual innuendos.

After an early-morning soul-reaping job, George looks in from afar on her mother, Joy, and kid sister, Reggie.  She misses them both but of course cannot contact them – as far as they’re concerned, she’s been dead for five years.  George goes to meet her fellow reapers and collect her next assignment, but their usual meeting place has burned down, and Rube, the head reaper and their boss, is nowhere to be found.