Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24386552-20140528161527/@comment-5278765-20141202012926

People always talk about how many characters have died on Grey's, but really, it's only three series regulars: George, Mark, and Lexie. Everyone else left alive. Three dead out of eleven gone. Mark had to die because he would have never left Sofia otherwise. Lexie also had strong ties to Seattle that make it unlikely she would have left. George is really the only one who was going to leave without dying, but died before he got a chance.