You'll Never Recover from These Seriously Devastating TV Character Deaths

Mark Greene from ER

You don’t know true sadness until you’ve seen Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) tell his estranged daughter that he loves her just before succumbing to brain cancer as a beautiful rendition of “Over the Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole plays softly in the background. The penultimate episode of ER’s eighth season marked one of the first occasions in which a main character was killed off without hindering the progress of the show. Even so, the doctor’s death left viewers with a Mark-shaped hole in their hearts.

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