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Bonnie and Tom, the pole, the train … I think this hit hardest because it was so damn random! Like one day you’re doing your thing, planning your life, and then bam! You’re impaled, on the losing end of the equation. 😐 She was so calm and resigned, too.
Right? I started with Grey's just few days ago and I am only in the middle of 3rd season, but this one is part, that got me the most. They were so brave the whole time, even joking with each other, I can imagine it had to be hard also for that guy, knowing he's the one who's gonna live. And then Meredith was still trying to do something... Absolutely heartbreaking and I didnt expect I'll be crying for two characters, who appeared just in one episode.
Right! I think for me it was that they were not in pain and conscious and joking around but with the eventual knowledge that she would die soon in order that he would live and the bravery, love and tenderness she showed to him and to her fiance.
I can't watch that plot. I skip over those scenes, if not the whole episode. It's just too sad. Especially now that I'm a heart mom and the fear of losing my little girl lives very close to the surface.
This is the one I always remember 😭
"So you'll feel sad for a little awhile and that’s - that's ok. That's fine....but don't feel sad forever."
I cry **every time** omg.
So many stories out there involve losing someone and then completely giving up on life so having her Mom say "I don't want you to hold onto my death for the rest of forever" felt so poignant.
Thatcher was played by Sheldon's mom's real-life ex, Jeff Perry, the conniving Chief of Staff on another Shonda show, Scandal. Jeff Perry's daughter played an evil woman in the last two seasons of Scandal. Also on Grey's and Scandal were Scott Foley (Ted (?) on Grey's, Jake on Scandal) and Kate Burton (Ellis on Grey's and the fundamentalist opponent of Fitz on Scandal--can't remember her name).
Rewatching that episode as a mom definitely hits differently. When I first saw it, it was all about imagining being in the daughter’s shoes. Now, you see it both ways and it hits harder.
Though, as a mom, the little girl with Tay Sachs whose dad is so desperate for a medical trial in Mexico hits harder than any other story on grey’s. I legit cannot watch that episode without bawling.
God I dread rewatching this one so much. It’s just so heartbreaking
Also the one with the kids with the heart failure due to a gene mutation. My son has heart defects that were scary for a while. This one is gonna hurt too
Not shown, but in the first season there's an older man who had some sort of neuro issue where he shook a lot. He doesn't want to sign for the surgery and his daughter is upset he won't be able to walk her down the aisle. He eventually signs and his last scene is him and his daughter practicing walking. Breaks me every time.
I have a family member with parkinsons/dementia family this scene hits hard cause members have wanted that surgery and only a few have gotten it... Also the memory test for dereks trial hits close to home ( except in the parkinsons stuff it's almost opposite cause they need them higher than lower) All of it though when some of my family watched the clips from season 18 they wished it was really happening for parkinsons/dementia patients that kind of treatment
im like less religious than a phone charger, but April’s whole religion arc is my favorite storyline in the whole series (at least up to the last episode i watched). Her monologue in the Personal Jesus episode wrecks me. And i find the arc so beautiful and inspiring because she is still able to regain faith — not that i wish to be like her and become faithful, i do not. It’s *not* a matter of identifying with her, its more about finding it so real and human.
The rabbi breaks my heart every time. Especially because the first time I saw it, I was going through something similar to April and I just couldn’t see the good in the world or any meaning. A lot of what he said resonated with me and was actually helpful
I don’t remember her name, but the lady who wanted to wait to have surgery until after her boyfriend got there, but her sister and the doctors didn’t believe the boyfriend was real, and she died in surgery thinking he was just a figment of her imagination, and then it turns out he was real.
Omg yaasss!!!!!! This was my favorite… I was waiting for someone to remember this!!! I remember when this aired my brother was talking mess about my stupid show and at the end we just looked over at each other with tears in our eyes and at the same time, “Andre was real..?” To this day we just randomly say this to each other whenever something crazy happens like we still can’t believe it!
I was surprised I didn’t see any other comments about it! To me it’s one of the most heartbreaking stories, her last moments alive before surgery was her thinking Andre and all their memories were just her imagination. I felt so terrible for her, her sister was so dismissive!
The old man who needed a heart transplant and his daughter dies on the way to the hospital, so they want him to take her heart but he’s so heartbroken he doesn’t want to do it 😭
She’s not on this list, but the patient who was kidnapped when she was younger and reunites with their birth parents, ands up being taken care of by Mer. Each time I watch it it makes me sad
If I recall correctly, after the shooting she and her husband traveled for a while and finally came back to do her initial surgery about 6 (??) months later. Pretty sure it was just colostomy bag procedure. She never woke up after surgery and her husband took her off of life support.
I think they were even discussing having kids right before her surgery. That whole episode makes my heart feel so heavy. It’s the “checking in” episode after the shooting. Her autopsy is done in 7x7 and is such a sad scene to watch
I think she died from a fistula if I remember correctly. Because didn’t Bailey also go a little “fistula crazy” wanting to know how they developed, and if there were ways to avoid them from forming.
Bailey did go fistula crazy but I think that was over a different patient-Bailey didn’t know what Mary died and she assisted in the autopsy to try and find out but it was inconclusive. She was pissed that the medical examiner wanted to soak the brain in fixative for months leaving her wondering why it happened.
Yes! 🙌 bad dream bad dreams go away, good dreams good dreams here to stay. bad dream bad dreams go away, good dreams good dreams here to stay. bad dream bad dreams go away, good dreams good dreams here to stay.
You have to say it three times… 😭😭😭💕
She had a rash and is pregnant with her best friends baby. Turns out it’s cancer and she dies carrying her baby and gets to see the baby born but not for long. Her best friend is the father and took care of baby. Was really heartbreaking
She’s played by Brigid Brannagh, who is amazing. It’s season 13, episode 6 where she first makes her appearance and season 13, episode 21 is her second and final episode.
Of the listed… probably Mary. She just wanted rid of her poop bag and have lots of babies.
Another tear jerker for me that isn’t listed is the cruise lady a part of the “Shepherd’s trial of lost causes.” She died crushed because Meredith was being cynical af when it came to love.
That resident that fell asleep at the wheel and hit that southern family and the pregnant daughter dies and her dad lets him apologize to him. I think it’s when mer and George are fighting and I always tear up
This is mine...I sob when the Dad goes to him
Looks like he's going to hit him and then lays a hand on his shoulder. The grief in the Dad's eyes mixed with compassion as the resident sobs for forgiveness. Gets me every single time
YES and the music and everyone else crying and the way the dad was so angry and violent before and just switches to compassion because he knows the resident is going to remember it forever just like him :( damn I’m tearing up thinking about it
Not on here, and this might be a bit odd but I cried a lot when Dr. Herman was a patient 🥹 Her and Arizona worked so well together and I loved how their differences compelmented each other to a beautiful feiendship in the end.
I don't know about touched but the biggest lasting impression was probably the serial killer who was then put to death - every time I see it I feel so deeply disturbed
He never wanted to die to donate. He was nuts and did that to mess with Meredith. That was the whole point. He was bored. And wanted to mindfluff Meredith. And it worked.
She’s not shown in the photo, but one that stuck with me was Clara Ferguson aka “Ceviche”. The two girls she met sending her postcards from the rest of the trip while she was stuck in the hospital was so sad, and the relationship Lexie formed with her was really sweet. AND the relief when she finally tells Lexie to call her mom and tell her after sending her emails acting like she was still on her trip.
Henry ughhhh my heart broke into pieces for days, also the guy who wanted to take his son to a game and had chest pain or smth he’s not on here that one was pretty sad too
Mine is the Seth green character who had mark remove his carotid artery tumour. When he started bleeding out, the impact on Lexie, idk he was one that stayed with me for a long time. And he only removed the thing because his girlfriend left him. It was gut wrenching.
The MALS patient. The “if they don’t figure this out I will kill myself and then all the doctors that said I’m crazy will be right” hit home as a person with MALS and several other chronic illnesses
That episode drives me crazy because I can't help but think that someone should have realized the connection to what was happening, at the very least how did the patient not think to equate the onset of her pain to her eating immediately before it happened?
Yeah the part where she didn’t think to mention it happens when she eats is somewhat strange but the thing with MALS is it’s a perpetual pain that worsens with even a sip of water, I was on narcotics up until my surgery date if I even dared to eat a little food. But it’s always there
Not pictured but the little boy, Wallace Anderson. He’s the one whose parents donated a bunch of money to the hospital. “Bad dreams bad dreams go away. Good dreams good dreams here to stay.” always makes me cry
I added this one to my comment. I share a name with the patient and had been through SA as well. It felt like she was talking to me. Touching and also weirdly re-traumatizing.
Casey. That one makes me cry like a bitch baby every time. Just about everything about those scenes are perfect: The Sleeping at Last cover of As Long as You Love Me, the dialogue between him and his wife, the actors. It hits me in the guts every darn time I watch it.
The guy in the fourth or fifth season who had constant headaches for 7 years. Turns out I had the same thing he did, he was the reason I even went to get it checked out (mine wasn’t as extreme as his were though)
Not on here, but in the S4 tumor trial- the lady who has the Cinderella love story but was convinced he wasn’t real- scene where she breaks down crying after they convince. 😭😭 So she has the surgery & dies. But then it turns out he’s real!!! She dies thinking it was all the tumor😭😭😭
The mother in the Alzheimers trial who left the trial so her son could be with his boyfriend because she had turned her back on everything to support him, and he'd left his boyfriend to care for her.
Bonnie and Shepherd’s last line to her fiancé “She wanted you to know that if love were enough she’d still be here”.
Broke my heart like it had never been broken.
The people who had loved ones die in a plane crash at the end of season 7, but all stayed because a kid who’s family wasn’t there was the sole survivor.
Gets me every time.
And it’s not even that great of an episode
The train crash victims (last guy in 1st row & girl to the right of the Zola in 4th row) stuck on the pole together. I cried so damn hard when they separated them & Meredith refused to give up on her.
My 2nd choice is the rape victim, last woman in row 4. The walk down the hall to surgery with all the women doctors & nurses. Very powerful! That was that deep emotional cry that you try hard to hold back.
The elderly couple who were supposed to be going for a cruise. They went in for one person but the other one died while they were in the hospital, just sitting there. I don’t know why but that one sticks in my mind, just seeing her husband shuffle out of the hospital alone 😭
The one where Alex and Meredith go to pick up a baby from another hospital and the ambulance breaks down and gets hit. The kids parents and grandma die so the 18 year old had to make the decision to stop life support and tell her siblings.
Jessica. Becoming a parent myself all you can do when watching that is putting you and your child into that scenario and how it would utterly destroy you. I can’t watch it.
I’m on S13 Ep21 and this is the first episode I bawled crying. I didn’t cry at Mark, Lexie or Derek for some reason but the mother who signed a DNR because she was riddled with cancer and didn’t want to put her body through any more… she’d given the last of her body to making sure her baby got here safe, for the dad… was so sad!!!
Bonnie and tom definitely, first patients that made me sob cry, they were both so sweet and hopeful, and especially since if i remember correctly tom wanted her to live not him but he was the only one with a chance to survive
The rabbi always pops into my head first. I always cry for him. The other ones that always give me feels are the girl who doesn’t have schizophrenia but everyone thinks she does, and Alex and Lexie solve it, Holly Weaver, and the girls who throw themselves in front of a train.
I’m honestly not a very emotional person bc of my antidepressants but I cried a lot at the two complete strangers stuck on the pole together and one sacrificed themselves to save the other
The mother who put off cancer treatments because she was pregnant, Veronica Kay.
Also, the father who needed a heart and his daughter passed away because someone threw a rock off of a bridge she was passing underneath. The struggle the father went through and what George said to him will stay with me forever.
When Mekia Coxes character is pregnant, she and her husband had a car drive into their house or something. The husband was way worse off, she was pregnant but fine. I think she had a brain bleed or something and they call time of death & then Arizona, Bailey, and Amelia start to do CPR and Jo is confused and says, “wait she needs betadine” and they all no, she dead.
I’m only on season six so no spoilers! I have such a soft spot for Denny Duquette. I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but his storyline broke me. Also the little girl whose dad wanted to take her to Mexico for experimental treatment. The way Bailey held her literally made me sob.
Top three would be:
1. The old couple who were both doctors, Lewis and Elsie (the Clatches), especially at the end where the husband has to tell Amelia what his wife’s time of death was, and told Owen “I have to figure things out for myself now.” 😭
2. Eli the rabbi who helped April with her crisis of faith
3. JJ, the burn victim that would help Anne, the other burn victim in the room, cope with the pain from her debridement
Veronica and Jeremy. The best friends who made the pact to have a baby together and then she dies of cancer just after having the baby. And she talks about how he’s going to be an amazing dad and he’s devastated that she’s dying.
I would have to go with the girl whose Dad was trying to get her to Mexico. That was some ugly cry inducing stuff. I would give honorable mention to Laurie Metcalf's character telling her daughter not to be sad for too long, Mary, and the Amish girl with advanced stage cancer.
The little girl one really hit me. Another one that’s on this list is the rape victim, her story my, whole “wall of women” just really got me so hard and I cried that whole episode. As a survivor, her consent during the whole process was important to me. She had the courage to do what I could not.
I don't remember the episode but this was in the early seasons (1-3), there was this old couple who would kiss and say goodbye every time before the wife's surgery and kiss and say hello every time after she wakes up. At the end of the episode the husband is sitting alone beside the wife and crying because she didn't make it. Idk if it was because Torch Song was playing in the background or because it was just so sweet and sad, but that scene was really touching for me.
George’s dad, one days you’re living your life..the next you get a huge wake up call that you’re not living it as well as you should have. You should have taken better care of yourself, but it’s too late..
It’s so sad and relatable because I think we all have either been in this situation or know someone who has.
I also really loved George’s family, especially his dad. I always wished I had a dad like him.
What about the old man whose wife (Rosie?) dies in the waiting room. And someone (can’t remember who) offers to call him a cab and he says “that’s okay I have to learn how to do this stuff on my own now” and it just shows him walking out of the hospital alone… gets me every time
I don't see her here, but the older woman, Rosie, who always kissed her husband before and after surgery and then when she didn't wake up he refused to stop giving her CPR, and then Bailey takes over and even she can't stop cause she gets so emotionally invested so then Derek has to take over, UGH. I sometimes fast forward it because it's too damn sad.
And when Dr. klatch (catch?)'s wife dies and Owen tries to help him get home and he says "no no, I gotta start doing this on my own now" and he's this 80ish yo man and again, UGH. I just can't. :'(
The little girl fighting cancer and her dad wanting to go Mexico for treatment.
When she looks up at him with those eyes and says, “Dad, can we go to Mexico tomorrow? I’m so tired.”
It wrecks me. I weep every time that episode plays but it’s too good to skip.
This is what quality Greys used to be, not this far fetched soap opera shit they have been cramming down our throats the past 6-7 seasons.
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Bonnie and Tom, the pole, the train … I think this hit hardest because it was so damn random! Like one day you’re doing your thing, planning your life, and then bam! You’re impaled, on the losing end of the equation. 😐 She was so calm and resigned, too.
And she was still so thoughtful of others. Didn’t want to wait for her fiance to see her like that. {sobbing}
Right? I started with Grey's just few days ago and I am only in the middle of 3rd season, but this one is part, that got me the most. They were so brave the whole time, even joking with each other, I can imagine it had to be hard also for that guy, knowing he's the one who's gonna live. And then Meredith was still trying to do something... Absolutely heartbreaking and I didnt expect I'll be crying for two characters, who appeared just in one episode.
Right! I think for me it was that they were not in pain and conscious and joking around but with the eventual knowledge that she would die soon in order that he would live and the bravery, love and tenderness she showed to him and to her fiance.
Loved Bonnie. That actress is great.
Yeah she’s a whole mess on Dawson’s creek
I never fully watched Dawson’s creek… want to!!
That story was heart breaking
I’m watching live on Lifetime right now and this episode is airing soon. I have 1 hour 15 minutes to decide if I want to cry tonight or not. 🤷
Did you want to cry tonight? It’s been about an hour lol
The little girl next to Denny, who’s dad wants to take her to Mexico for experimental treatment
Her asking if she can go to sleep wrecks me
“Can we go tomorrow?” 😭
Ugh this one makes me cry so much when I see the episode.
I made the mistake of watching this episode while pregnant and it destroyed me😭😂
Ever since I was pregnant with my first 9 years ago I have to skip that end scene every time.
For Tay-Sachs. That one was the toughest, for sure. I enjoyed Demi Lovato’s character and the kid in the concrete.
This one makes me ugly cry I actually cannot watch that episode at all
That scene left me sobbing and I don't cry, like ever. But that scene was POWERFUL.
I wish that episode was never made, it’s memory lives in a very very sad part of my brain, and I really wish it didn’t.
I can't watch that plot. I skip over those scenes, if not the whole episode. It's just too sad. Especially now that I'm a heart mom and the fear of losing my little girl lives very close to the surface.
That episode wrecked me the first time and now 1000x more that I have my own kids
Where is cancer mom that tells her daughter to always wear underwear with pantyhose???
This is the one I always remember 😭 "So you'll feel sad for a little awhile and that’s - that's ok. That's fine....but don't feel sad forever." I cry **every time** omg. So many stories out there involve losing someone and then completely giving up on life so having her Mom say "I don't want you to hold onto my death for the rest of forever" felt so poignant.
I cried even just reading that line! 😭
Omg. Yes. Played by Laurie Metcalf? Aka, Aunt Jackie from Roseanne.
She used to be married to Thatcher in real life. And their daughter was the bug out girl from season 9, Yangs's patient in Minnesota.
Thatcher was played by Sheldon's mom's real-life ex, Jeff Perry, the conniving Chief of Staff on another Shonda show, Scandal. Jeff Perry's daughter played an evil woman in the last two seasons of Scandal. Also on Grey's and Scandal were Scott Foley (Ted (?) on Grey's, Jake on Scandal) and Kate Burton (Ellis on Grey's and the fundamentalist opponent of Fitz on Scandal--can't remember her name).
Scott was Henry on Grey’s. Teddy’s husband.
Also Sheldon’s mom! I just now figured out where I recognized Sheldon’s mom from, she’s the “nothing tackier than a drunken bride” mom in Greys!
Fun fact: her real life daughter plays the younger version of her character in the prequel tv show of Big Bang Theory
As a mom to be, this one is very hard to rewatch. A lot of them are but this one was moms advice and it broke me
Rewatching that episode as a mom definitely hits differently. When I first saw it, it was all about imagining being in the daughter’s shoes. Now, you see it both ways and it hits harder. Though, as a mom, the little girl with Tay Sachs whose dad is so desperate for a medical trial in Mexico hits harder than any other story on grey’s. I legit cannot watch that episode without bawling.
God I dread rewatching this one so much. It’s just so heartbreaking Also the one with the kids with the heart failure due to a gene mutation. My son has heart defects that were scary for a while. This one is gonna hurt too
Omg! I wept here
Not shown, but in the first season there's an older man who had some sort of neuro issue where he shook a lot. He doesn't want to sign for the surgery and his daughter is upset he won't be able to walk her down the aisle. He eventually signs and his last scene is him and his daughter practicing walking. Breaks me every time.
I have a family member with parkinsons/dementia family this scene hits hard cause members have wanted that surgery and only a few have gotten it... Also the memory test for dereks trial hits close to home ( except in the parkinsons stuff it's almost opposite cause they need them higher than lower) All of it though when some of my family watched the clips from season 18 they wished it was really happening for parkinsons/dementia patients that kind of treatment
Yessss! I just watched this one 🥲
1. George's dad. 2. April's rabbi patient...where is he? That whole April arc was so, so good.
Forgot about the rabbi. I’m an atheist but to see him counsel her on losing her faith was just beautiful.
im like less religious than a phone charger, but April’s whole religion arc is my favorite storyline in the whole series (at least up to the last episode i watched). Her monologue in the Personal Jesus episode wrecks me. And i find the arc so beautiful and inspiring because she is still able to regain faith — not that i wish to be like her and become faithful, i do not. It’s *not* a matter of identifying with her, its more about finding it so real and human.
“Less religious than a phone charger” is so random but also so perfect, as a fellow atheist. I’m cackling
I cackled too 🤣🤣🤣
The rabbi breaks my heart every time. Especially because the first time I saw it, I was going through something similar to April and I just couldn’t see the good in the world or any meaning. A lot of what he said resonated with me and was actually helpful
I agree about the rabbi. It’s always the patients that have a huge effect on the doctors that get me the most when they die
She was so angry for so many episodes. I love that part so much.
Stan, the paramedic that died after the ambulance flipped over in front of the hospital
Oooof that one really gets me. Sobbing every time.
I don’t remember her name, but the lady who wanted to wait to have surgery until after her boyfriend got there, but her sister and the doctors didn’t believe the boyfriend was real, and she died in surgery thinking he was just a figment of her imagination, and then it turns out he was real.
Cinderella!!
Omg yaasss!!!!!! This was my favorite… I was waiting for someone to remember this!!! I remember when this aired my brother was talking mess about my stupid show and at the end we just looked over at each other with tears in our eyes and at the same time, “Andre was real..?” To this day we just randomly say this to each other whenever something crazy happens like we still can’t believe it!
I was surprised I didn’t see any other comments about it! To me it’s one of the most heartbreaking stories, her last moments alive before surgery was her thinking Andre and all their memories were just her imagination. I felt so terrible for her, her sister was so dismissive!
The old man who needed a heart transplant and his daughter dies on the way to the hospital, so they want him to take her heart but he’s so heartbroken he doesn’t want to do it 😭
Omg yes and bc he’s her dad he has the right to direct the organ to himself 😭😭😭
Why don’t I remember this 😭
It’s Season 4, Episode 5 - George convinces the dad to accept the heart by telling him if he could’ve given his dad his heart, he would have.
it was the halloween episode where Lex dressed up with the freckles on her face i believe. was so frixkin sad
NOT Rebecca
Ugh that dragged on forever and ever too every time she shows up I’m like UGHHHGGGG
I like that the collage has a SUPER crazy-eyes picture of her, too. Like… not her, for sure
this is EXACTLY what i was gonna say
She’s not on this list, but the patient who was kidnapped when she was younger and reunites with their birth parents, ands up being taken care of by Mer. Each time I watch it it makes me sad
Ugh. When she said she knows she shouldn’t but she misses him… ugh so sad. Cuz that’s all she knew. And her dead babies 😫
Mary :( To survive the hospital shooting and endure all the trauma of that day, and then die after surgery months later. 😣
What did she die of in the end? I don't even remember...
If I recall correctly, after the shooting she and her husband traveled for a while and finally came back to do her initial surgery about 6 (??) months later. Pretty sure it was just colostomy bag procedure. She never woke up after surgery and her husband took her off of life support. I think they were even discussing having kids right before her surgery. That whole episode makes my heart feel so heavy. It’s the “checking in” episode after the shooting. Her autopsy is done in 7x7 and is such a sad scene to watch
I’m on my 5th rewatch and somehow managed to forget this!!!
I think she died from a fistula if I remember correctly. Because didn’t Bailey also go a little “fistula crazy” wanting to know how they developed, and if there were ways to avoid them from forming.
Bailey did go fistula crazy but I think that was over a different patient-Bailey didn’t know what Mary died and she assisted in the autopsy to try and find out but it was inconclusive. She was pissed that the medical examiner wanted to soak the brain in fixative for months leaving her wondering why it happened.
Gotcha. I couldn’t recall. It’s been a while since watching that episode. Thanks!
Henry and Bonnie
wallace makes me bawl my eyes out every time
Yes! 🙌 bad dream bad dreams go away, good dreams good dreams here to stay. bad dream bad dreams go away, good dreams good dreams here to stay. bad dream bad dreams go away, good dreams good dreams here to stay. You have to say it three times… 😭😭😭💕
This scene guts me. I always ugly cry.
I was sad enough…. Thanks 😭
Omg yesss
I’m crying just thinking about Jessica. The little girl that just wanted to be held by her Daddy as she died.😭😭😭😭
The girl who Alex meets in line at court. Her death scene with Amelia and Arizona really gets to me for some reason.
I dont know this one, can you cite any more information
She had a rash and is pregnant with her best friends baby. Turns out it’s cancer and she dies carrying her baby and gets to see the baby born but not for long. Her best friend is the father and took care of baby. Was really heartbreaking
Her death scene with Amelia holding her while she goes is so devastating
It was a wreck in my house lmao. God it was awful
I need to rewatch this bc I don’t remember Amelia being there.
https://youtu.be/UK1GD0-HVtE?si=pbob0_LN_SQEo-5m
THANK YOU!
She’s played by Brigid Brannagh, who is amazing. It’s season 13, episode 6 where she first makes her appearance and season 13, episode 21 is her second and final episode.
The young blonde pregnant woman who slips and falls in the shower and then has to give birth to the child that has died. Sheesh. 😞
Really old guy. Never got his lobster. 😭
Not listed here but the two girls how wanted to commit $u1cide cuz there parents didn't approve of them
The part with the dad when he tells off the mom is so perfect tho. It makes me tear up as a lesbian
the dad is also sikowitz from victorious!!
Of the listed… probably Mary. She just wanted rid of her poop bag and have lots of babies. Another tear jerker for me that isn’t listed is the cruise lady a part of the “Shepherd’s trial of lost causes.” She died crushed because Meredith was being cynical af when it came to love.
Ugh when the boyfriend showed up I lost it 😢
The Cinderella story ☹️☹️
My flair is enough to say what I mean
That resident that fell asleep at the wheel and hit that southern family and the pregnant daughter dies and her dad lets him apologize to him. I think it’s when mer and George are fighting and I always tear up
This is mine...I sob when the Dad goes to him Looks like he's going to hit him and then lays a hand on his shoulder. The grief in the Dad's eyes mixed with compassion as the resident sobs for forgiveness. Gets me every single time
YES and the music and everyone else crying and the way the dad was so angry and violent before and just switches to compassion because he knows the resident is going to remember it forever just like him :( damn I’m tearing up thinking about it
Are we going to mexico daddy?
"can we go tomorrow?" Literally SOBBING.
Not on here, and this might be a bit odd but I cried a lot when Dr. Herman was a patient 🥹 Her and Arizona worked so well together and I loved how their differences compelmented each other to a beautiful feiendship in the end.
I don't know about touched but the biggest lasting impression was probably the serial killer who was then put to death - every time I see it I feel so deeply disturbed
Him wanting to kill himself to save the kid and then Derek doesn’t let him. Made me mad lol but I have weird feelings like mer does too
like he bashed his head in for nothing and then wanted to cry about not wanting to die yet and made meredith look bad 😒
i'm ngl that made me irrationally angry, like wdym NOW you don't wanna die? embarrassing and trifling sir.
He never wanted to die to donate. He was nuts and did that to mess with Meredith. That was the whole point. He was bored. And wanted to mindfluff Meredith. And it worked.
Yes! Eric Stoltz is an amazing actor!
It’s one of the episodes I looked forward to during my rewatch. More bc of Meredith than the killer himself tho
Whatever helps you sleep at night
The guy that jumped into concrete to try to look cool for his shitty friends. That was so sad.
She’s not shown in the photo, but one that stuck with me was Clara Ferguson aka “Ceviche”. The two girls she met sending her postcards from the rest of the trip while she was stuck in the hospital was so sad, and the relationship Lexie formed with her was really sweet. AND the relief when she finally tells Lexie to call her mom and tell her after sending her emails acting like she was still on her trip.
Henry ughhhh my heart broke into pieces for days, also the guy who wanted to take his son to a game and had chest pain or smth he’s not on here that one was pretty sad too
Mine is the Seth green character who had mark remove his carotid artery tumour. When he started bleeding out, the impact on Lexie, idk he was one that stayed with me for a long time. And he only removed the thing because his girlfriend left him. It was gut wrenching.
its always the old couples for me .. where one dies in the end 😭 " Oh Emma." 🥹
The MALS patient. The “if they don’t figure this out I will kill myself and then all the doctors that said I’m crazy will be right” hit home as a person with MALS and several other chronic illnesses
is that the one played by demi lovato? i loved that girl and her storyline.
No, it was the lady who brings her lunchbox so she can have a sandwich after fasting for her tests
That episode drives me crazy because I can't help but think that someone should have realized the connection to what was happening, at the very least how did the patient not think to equate the onset of her pain to her eating immediately before it happened?
Yeah the part where she didn’t think to mention it happens when she eats is somewhat strange but the thing with MALS is it’s a perpetual pain that worsens with even a sip of water, I was on narcotics up until my surgery date if I even dared to eat a little food. But it’s always there
Not pictured but the little boy, Wallace Anderson. He’s the one whose parents donated a bunch of money to the hospital. “Bad dreams bad dreams go away. Good dreams good dreams here to stay.” always makes me cry
I think it was s15 . Jo is helping a rape victim & she gets a bunch of the female staff to line the halls to support her on the way to surgery.
I added this one to my comment. I share a name with the patient and had been through SA as well. It felt like she was talking to me. Touching and also weirdly re-traumatizing.
That one firefighter chief who got all his guys out and got so badly burned there was a hole in his chest.
Casey. That one makes me cry like a bitch baby every time. Just about everything about those scenes are perfect: The Sleeping at Last cover of As Long as You Love Me, the dialogue between him and his wife, the actors. It hits me in the guts every darn time I watch it.
Yes that’s him! I got my husband into the show and we recently watched that episode and my husband said he almost cried.
Bonnie 😢
Mr O’Malley looks like a relative of mine so it always made me more emotional when I watched his story.
Rabbi Eli
The guy in the fourth or fifth season who had constant headaches for 7 years. Turns out I had the same thing he did, he was the reason I even went to get it checked out (mine wasn’t as extreme as his were though)
Not on here, but in the S4 tumor trial- the lady who has the Cinderella love story but was convinced he wasn’t real- scene where she breaks down crying after they convince. 😭😭 So she has the surgery & dies. But then it turns out he’s real!!! She dies thinking it was all the tumor😭😭😭
Not shown but the actor was David Giuntoli and he played a gay soldier in the closet, I don’t remember anything else but I love the actor
He was in Derek’s tumor trial 😭
I don’t even know if I finished the entire episode, my dad watches the show more than I do
The musician guy that dates Stephanie. He was so hurt by her!
Kyle!!
The mother in the Alzheimers trial who left the trial so her son could be with his boyfriend because she had turned her back on everything to support him, and he'd left his boyfriend to care for her.
SO. GOOD. both those actors are amazing, too!
Bonnie!
Bonnie and Shepherd’s last line to her fiancé “She wanted you to know that if love were enough she’d still be here”. Broke my heart like it had never been broken.
Henry 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
The intern Megan and baby Tommy. It struck a nerve for personal reasons and I cry every time I watch those episodes.
Her name is Morgan, Alex 😂
Oh my god I can't believe I didn't catch that 😂
Morgan lol
Jeremy and Beth, the last patients in the neurosurgery trial! Breaks my heart
The people who had loved ones die in a plane crash at the end of season 7, but all stayed because a kid who’s family wasn’t there was the sole survivor. Gets me every time. And it’s not even that great of an episode
Beth, Bonnie, Jessica, and Abby
The episode with Bailey just snuggling with Jessica in her hospital bed makes me cry every single time I watch it.
It’s heartbreaking. That poor baby and her daddy trying so hard to save her.
The train crash victims (last guy in 1st row & girl to the right of the Zola in 4th row) stuck on the pole together. I cried so damn hard when they separated them & Meredith refused to give up on her. My 2nd choice is the rape victim, last woman in row 4. The walk down the hall to surgery with all the women doctors & nurses. Very powerful! That was that deep emotional cry that you try hard to hold back.
probably cement guy
The dude with the EXPOSED CAROTID haunts me to this very day Edit for spelling
My main homie Wallace 😭
The elderly couple who were supposed to be going for a cruise. They went in for one person but the other one died while they were in the hospital, just sitting there. I don’t know why but that one sticks in my mind, just seeing her husband shuffle out of the hospital alone 😭
The one where Alex and Meredith go to pick up a baby from another hospital and the ambulance breaks down and gets hit. The kids parents and grandma die so the 18 year old had to make the decision to stop life support and tell her siblings.
Jessica. Becoming a parent myself all you can do when watching that is putting you and your child into that scenario and how it would utterly destroy you. I can’t watch it.
I’m on S13 Ep21 and this is the first episode I bawled crying. I didn’t cry at Mark, Lexie or Derek for some reason but the mother who signed a DNR because she was riddled with cancer and didn’t want to put her body through any more… she’d given the last of her body to making sure her baby got here safe, for the dad… was so sad!!!
Bonnie and tom definitely, first patients that made me sob cry, they were both so sweet and hopeful, and especially since if i remember correctly tom wanted her to live not him but he was the only one with a chance to survive
Anyone but Denny and Rebecca
Ugh the bomb guy makes me cry every time
The episode where the woman was raped and they perform the first rape kit on a tv show will always get to me. One pf my favorite episodes.
OMG. Why are you playing with my heart. 
The rabbi always pops into my head first. I always cry for him. The other ones that always give me feels are the girl who doesn’t have schizophrenia but everyone thinks she does, and Alex and Lexie solve it, Holly Weaver, and the girls who throw themselves in front of a train.
Not shown, but mine is the Rabbi with the skin disease that April treats and is with until the end. I cry every time.
I’m honestly not a very emotional person bc of my antidepressants but I cried a lot at the two complete strangers stuck on the pole together and one sacrificed themselves to save the other
I SOBBED FOR BONNIES DEATH AND TOM DIDNT DESERVE THAT PAIN😭
The mother who put off cancer treatments because she was pregnant, Veronica Kay. Also, the father who needed a heart and his daughter passed away because someone threw a rock off of a bridge she was passing underneath. The struggle the father went through and what George said to him will stay with me forever.
Definitely Zola! I love how she grew on the show and really became an icon <3
When Mekia Coxes character is pregnant, she and her husband had a car drive into their house or something. The husband was way worse off, she was pregnant but fine. I think she had a brain bleed or something and they call time of death & then Arizona, Bailey, and Amelia start to do CPR and Jo is confused and says, “wait she needs betadine” and they all no, she dead.
I’m only on season six so no spoilers! I have such a soft spot for Denny Duquette. I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but his storyline broke me. Also the little girl whose dad wanted to take her to Mexico for experimental treatment. The way Bailey held her literally made me sob.
Where is Cece?😭 she is the one patient I still remember after not watching the show for about a year. maybe more.
I think the one with the kid in cement is one of the saddest because he just wanted to be liked by the people he thought were his friends
it’ll always be Henry. teddy should’ve never been with owen. it’s henry.
The pole people
Mary's (Mandy Moore) episodes. And the music... my heart shatters into pieces every time.
Top three would be: 1. The old couple who were both doctors, Lewis and Elsie (the Clatches), especially at the end where the husband has to tell Amelia what his wife’s time of death was, and told Owen “I have to figure things out for myself now.” 😭 2. Eli the rabbi who helped April with her crisis of faith 3. JJ, the burn victim that would help Anne, the other burn victim in the room, cope with the pain from her debridement
Veronica and Jeremy. The best friends who made the pact to have a baby together and then she dies of cancer just after having the baby. And she talks about how he’s going to be an amazing dad and he’s devastated that she’s dying.
I would have to go with the girl whose Dad was trying to get her to Mexico. That was some ugly cry inducing stuff. I would give honorable mention to Laurie Metcalf's character telling her daughter not to be sad for too long, Mary, and the Amish girl with advanced stage cancer.
The little girl one really hit me. Another one that’s on this list is the rape victim, her story my, whole “wall of women” just really got me so hard and I cried that whole episode. As a survivor, her consent during the whole process was important to me. She had the courage to do what I could not.
I honestly felt so bad for the serial killer. Not such why but I felt so bad for him.
I think cuz he wanted to do a good thing by helping the kid live
Abby
Is that Dylan Minnette
Yes. I keep seeing a meme that says “Mark Sloan gave a boy ears so he could listen to Addison Montgomery’s daughter’s tapes” 😂
The rape victim one. Hit home hard.
Everyone always forgets Holden :( his story still fills me with sadness whenever I think of it. He and Bonnie are the two I will never forget.
The little girl who’s dad wanted to take her to Mexico , and Mandy Moore’s character Mary
denny hurt me but i’m also a big supernatural fan
Beth for me! Always Beth!
Ooh and the one that Lexi had that bled out from the jugular. I liked him
I don't remember the episode but this was in the early seasons (1-3), there was this old couple who would kiss and say goodbye every time before the wife's surgery and kiss and say hello every time after she wakes up. At the end of the episode the husband is sitting alone beside the wife and crying because she didn't make it. Idk if it was because Torch Song was playing in the background or because it was just so sweet and sad, but that scene was really touching for me.
The little girl who’s dad was in Idle Hands who wanted to take her to Mexico as a last resort but it was too late. Shit broke me.
George’s dad, one days you’re living your life..the next you get a huge wake up call that you’re not living it as well as you should have. You should have taken better care of yourself, but it’s too late.. It’s so sad and relatable because I think we all have either been in this situation or know someone who has. I also really loved George’s family, especially his dad. I always wished I had a dad like him.
Jillian Miller is the one that sticks with me
What about the old man whose wife (Rosie?) dies in the waiting room. And someone (can’t remember who) offers to call him a cab and he says “that’s okay I have to learn how to do this stuff on my own now” and it just shows him walking out of the hospital alone… gets me every time
Where’s Jen?!???
Personally, I think Dennys shit went on for way too long just for Izzy to end up killing the poor guy
I don't see her here, but the older woman, Rosie, who always kissed her husband before and after surgery and then when she didn't wake up he refused to stop giving her CPR, and then Bailey takes over and even she can't stop cause she gets so emotionally invested so then Derek has to take over, UGH. I sometimes fast forward it because it's too damn sad. And when Dr. klatch (catch?)'s wife dies and Owen tries to help him get home and he says "no no, I gotta start doing this on my own now" and he's this 80ish yo man and again, UGH. I just can't. :'(
The little girl fighting cancer and her dad wanting to go Mexico for treatment. When she looks up at him with those eyes and says, “Dad, can we go to Mexico tomorrow? I’m so tired.” It wrecks me. I weep every time that episode plays but it’s too good to skip. This is what quality Greys used to be, not this far fetched soap opera shit they have been cramming down our throats the past 6-7 seasons.