We Ranked All the Grey's Anatomy Deaths By How Hard They Made Us Cry: Is McDreamy No. 1?

Shonda Rhimes is an emotional terrorist. Which death made us cry the most?

By Sydney Bucksbaum May 07, 2015 9:00 PMTags
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Shonda Rhimes, you are under arrest for crimes against the TGIT fandom.

You have emotionally terrorized us for over 10 years...by killing off basically every character that has ever walked through the doors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. The hospital is named after two dead main characters, for crying out loud!

Your most recent offense? Shattering our hearts and crushing our souls by killing Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) in one of the most gut-wrenching and emotionally torturous episodes of television we've ever seen.

But Derek is hardly the first death to completely rock us on Grey's Anatomy over the past 11 seasons of ABC's long-running drama. In fact, his death isn't even the most depressing one we've seen on the show!

So grab some Kleenex and click through our gallery below to find out which Grey's Anatomy death was the saddest, ranked by how much each one made us cry. Spoiler alert: there are a lot. 

Grey's Anatomy airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.