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Believe it or not, given Grey's Anatomy's reputation for gleefully killing off characters left and right, the show hasn't suffered a major death since killing off Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) at the end of season 11. While other main characters have come close to meeting an early demise — like when Stephanie Edwards (Jerrika Hinton) had to run through a fire in season 13, or when April barely survived a catastrophic car accident in season 14 — they've always managed to pull through. Some longtime cast members have left the show, but it's always been of the characters' own free will (if not always the actors').
Prior to season 11, Grey's never went more than two seasons (and rarely even that long) without killing either a main cast member or a long-running guest star; yet, we've now had four entire seasons without a single devastating loss. That makes us feel like at least one major character is living on borrowed time, and possibly even more than one. Perhaps Grey's has simply been biding its time, lulling us into complacency, so that when the fatal blows finally do start falling, we'll be unprepared, and the losses will utterly destroy us.