19 Shocking Death Scenes We’ll Never Recover From

7. Finn on ‘Glee’

You’re made of stone if you didn’t lose it during the episode that the glee club bid farewell to Finn. The fact that the actor, Corey Monteith, had actually died of a drug overdose in real life made it all the more gut-wrenching. How the cast got through that touching episode with such class and dignity is anyone’s guess. They never explained how the character Finn died – it didn’t really matter – but it was important for everyone, including the audience, to say goodbye.

8. Lucy on ‘E.R.’

Lucy’s death was shocking because the earnest doctor was stabbed by a crazy patient. It was even more shocking because she made it through surgery okay but then died from a pulmonary embolism. Come on! This show had a lot of these kinds of emotional roller coasters (hospital dramas lend themselves to that), but we’re also still not over Dr. Mark Green’s death from a brain tumor. Anthony Edwards played that to gut-wrenching perfection.

9. Ned Stark on ‘Game of Thrones’

There have been several shocking deaths on Game of Thrones, but Ned’s might have been the hardest to handle because it was the first time the show blindsided us by killing off a main character. The Hand of the King was beheaded by Joffrey, and shock set in. Jon Snow’s death was a jaw-dropper, too, but Ned was just so unexpected (unless you read the books, of course).