![]() Maggie sobbed after putting down the nail polish, realizing her mother had died. I t also serves as a stark contrast to Meredith’s reaction to her mother’s death. How deeply affected the people she left behind were was what made losing Diane Pierce (LaTanya Richardson Jackson) so sad. Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) was a wreck after her adoptive mother died, as many people would be. ![]() It was only through flashbacks in episodes to come that the audience fully came to appreciate her as the formidable surgeon and intense woman she was. ![]() So when she coded after struggling with Alzheimer’s in Season 3, there may have been few dry eyes in the house. Let’s be honest, Ellis (Kate Burton) wasn’t the best mother. When she finally did visit, the two carried on a somewhat terse conversation before he ultimately died in his sleep. Meredith ( Ellen Pompeo) and Thatcher (Jeff Perry) had a rocky relationship as father and daughter, but as she warmed up to her sister Lexie (Chyler Leigh), she grew to care for her father as well - which made his death somber, as Meredith put off seeing him. Like so many of the relationships on “Grey’s,” amends were sadly made just a little too late. Jo Wilson’s (Camilla Luddington) estranged and abusive husband, who was attacked in a hit-and-run in the 10th episode of Season 14 and whose organs were donated to save others, allowing him to do something good for once.ġ3. Richard Webber’s (James Pickens Jr.) Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor, who died due to cardiomyopathy related to liver failure in Season 14 and Paul Stadler (Matthew Morrison), Dr. Craig Thomas (William Daniels), who died of a heart attack while performing an operation in the fifth episode of Season 9 Heather Brooks (Tina Majorino), part of the second class of surgical interns who died from accidental electrocution in the second episode of Season 10 Jimmy Evans (James Remar), who died in Season 10 from complications of endocarditis, which he developed after years of heroin use Francesca McNeil (Harley Graham) who was admitted for cardiomyopathy and received an artificial heart - but who passed away after the transplant in the 21st episode of Season 10 Olive Warner (Mary Kay Place), Dr. Knight), who died in the 11th episode of Season 3 from cancer Susan Grey (Mare Winningham), who died due to complications from a procedure to treat hiccups in the 23rd episode of Season 3 Gary Clark (Michael O’Neill), a mass shooter who took his grief over the death of his wife out on the hospital and ultimately killed himself in the sixth season finale Dr. Those include Bonnie Crasnoff (Monica Keena), who was admitted after a train crash which left her impaled with a stranger in the sixth episode of Season 2 Harold O’Malley (George Dzundza), the father of George O’Malley ( T.R. There have been quite a few of memorable ones that caused tears to be shed but not buckets to be cried. ![]() Now showrun by Krista Vernoff, “Grey’s Anatomy” has become the longest-running medical drama on television and, as such, the show has accumulated a record-high body count. Being set in a hospital meant that mortality was a constant theme that touched the lives of every one who walked through the doors, be they of-the-week patients or support staff, or full-time cast members - no one is immune to the cold touch of death. If there’s anyone that knows how to deliver a heart-wrenching death scene, it’s the team behind ABC’s “ Grey’s Anatomy.” Created by Shonda Rhimes, the broadcast medical drama came out of the gate in 2005 with literal life and death stakes for its characters.
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