Patrick Dempsey Leaving ‘Grey’s Anatomy': Actor & Shonda Rhimes On Derek’s Death | TVLine 

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s most tragic twists ever, Derek Shepherd died in Thursday’s episode after getting broadsided by semi. The catastrophe leaves Meredith (played by Ellen Pompeo) a widow and marks the end of an 11-year journey for Patrick Dempsey.

“It’s been a remarkable ride,” the actor tells TVLine, exclusively. “The worldwide impact has been extraordinary. It is incredible how devoted and passionate the fans are, and I will forever be grateful and humbled by the experience.”

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creator Shonda Rhimes, meanwhile, released a statement lamenting the loss of Derek, praising Dempsey’s “meaningful” performance and teasing a whole new world, again, for Meredith, who almost a year ago said a (non-fatal) goodbye to BFF Cristina (Sandra Oh).

Derek Shepherd is and will always be an incredibly important character — for Meredith, for me and for the fans. I absolutely never imagined saying goodbye to our ‘McDreamy.’ Patrick Dempsey’s performance shaped Derek in a way that I know we both hope became a meaningful example — happy, sad, romantic, painful and always true — of what young women should demand from modern love. His loss will be felt by all. Now, Meredith and the entire

family are about to enter uncharted territory as we head into this new chapter of her life. The possibilities for what may come are endless. As Ellis Grey would say: the carousel never stops turning.

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Lastly, ABC issued a statement of its own addressing Dempsey’s departure.

, Patrick Dempsey is moving on to pursue other interests. Dr. Derek Shepherd is an iconic character and we’ve been proud to be the home of ‘McDreamy’ and the ‘Mer/Der’ love story. The devotion of Grey’s fans throughout the years has been a testament to the creative mind of Shonda Rhimes and Dempsey’s talent. ‘McDreamy’ will be greatly missed and we wish Patrick the very best in his future endeavors.

fans? Are you grieving along with Meredith? Hit the comments!

I’m speechless. That was one of the most beautiful hours of television I’ve ever seen, and I’m so so so sad. I can’t believe that just happened. RIP Derek Shepherd.

Beautiful? WTF? That was the worst episode of television ever written. Seriously. I’m never watching that show again.

Laughing so hard at shonda rhimes’ over-the-top melodrama being called “beautiful”.

Yea not impressed. We The fans deserved better! It’s implausible that Mer wouldn’t call for him to be transferred! Have his neuro Demi-God sister check him out! No goodbye from his family- sisters- mother. BOOO BOOO . Bad form. Bad writing.

The lack of other characters getting to say goodbye was my only complaint. I assume is was done this way because of Dempsey’s availability.

He was BRAIN DEAD. She examined his charts herself. She didn’t need diagnostic help from her colleagues.

The lack of other characters getting to say goodbye is life. That’s what happens. People don’t get to die in perfect settings.

SERIOUSLY! Why couldn’t Meredith call anybody? Call Derek sister so she can say goodbye! Have hope a MIRACLE would happe.!

She didn’t need a second opinion because she looked at his chart herself and saw he was gone. All your other questions will be addressed on the 2-hour special next week.

Agreed. I find this exit really hard to believe.

I think the knowledge Mer has as a doctor is beside the point in terms of calling his sister. Amelia should have been called because she’s his sister, not because she’s a neurosurgeon. I waited and waited for Mer to call his family, but she never did. That is unthinkable to me. If my sister-in-law let my brother die without allowing me -or my mother- the opportunity to say goodbye, I’d never forgive her. It’s a selfish and callous thing to do. I will watch next Thursday just to see if she gets called out, but I lost the ability to like Meredith so I just don’t feel any need to continue watching the show.

It’s insulting to Meredith as a doctor to say she should have called anyone at all. She knows how to read tests and diagnostics. She knew immediately what had happened. And like she said, she did what any “Good, rational doctor” would do. Meredith would’ve called Amelia a decade ago, but she didn’t need to now. She knew, just like she knew all last episode, that he was gone and nothing was going to help that.

I totally agree!!! I’m so disappointed in Shonda’s inability to give Mcdreamy’s fans a proper goodbye and Mcdreamy himself the exit he deserved. Really the most famous neuro surgeon on television killed by incompetent doctors, and all alone with no family or friends

Disagree. Perfect irony for Derek The Teacher to die at the hands of poorly trained doctors. Far more tragic was George, and the show survived. This will be interesting.

I agree she needs to get off her high horse you cant just fire and kill the main characters that make the show work as far as I am concern we are gonna stop watching all of her shows bad bad decisions on her part andI hope all her shows fail due to bad writing

Yes but now there is a storyline where people can be pissed at merry-death for not telling them

So Shonda is saving corny ass Jake Ballard and killing off Derek?!?

Tonite was my last night in Shondaland- EPIC FAIL!!!

So true!! LAZY writing and a diss to her loyal fans for such a vacant episode

Oh, come on! Give Meredith a *lot* more credit than *that!* She was very close to declaring Neuro as her specialty and had logged a lot of hours assisting Derek before the Alzheimer Trials fooforah derailed her from that track — she would be able to tell that if there was even a chance of Amelia being able to do *anything,* she would have had Derek transferred. It’s a no-brainer. (What? Too soon?) .

Of course, forget all that: we know from Derek’s own inner monologue that nobody was going to be able to do anything. We can infer from that that the damage was so bad that the greenest intern — Karev in his most incompentet Evilspawn mode in the pilot, for instance — could read the chart and know that Amelia wasn’t going to be able to do anything. Derek’s own observations proved that Meredith could figure out that Amelia didn’t need to be consulted professionally.

PS: Regarding waiting for his sisters and mother: First, ignore the unlikehood of them being able to get all those actresses together at once (it would have been a scheduling nightmare). Second, Meredith knew what Derek wanted. They likely had the talk, but even if they didn’t, he likely talked in hypothetical terms while treating enough similar cases to his own that Meredith could figure out that he wanted to be disconnected ASAP if he were brain dead or otherwise in a persistent vegetative state. Third, Derek and Amelia aren’t the only medical professionals in their family — and moreover, they’re a not just a medical family, they’re a medical family whose two most prominent doctors witnessed their father’s murder when they were kids. They know what the severity of Derek’s injuries means. They almost certainly had the Talk regarding end-of-life decisions at some point and, thus, they and Meredith are likely all on the same wavelength regarding knowing what Derek would want. Fourth, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Amelia won’t get pissed at Meredith for not waiting for her before pulling the plug on Derek, given that she and Derek had the most unique (and likely closest) bond among the Shepherd siblings. But Amelia’s thing is to lash out first and think second. Clearly, how Amelia will react to the loss of Derek and how she will react to how Meredith handled pulling the plug are deliberately open questions that will be answered next week.

Totally agree!! They Suck!! They really needed to kill him off because he was being to difficult, oh poor babies, get a life grow a pair and move onto the next episode!! Ok so I’m a little mad they killed him off, but you didn’t see them kill of Burke or Yang, No! They left it open. Just terrible, you were right terrible terrible writing!! What’s wrong with you ABC, they never should have killed off Sloan either but there loss there his great on the last ship and cute as ever!! Just thought I’d add that in too!

Totally agree!! They Suck!! They really needed to kill him off because he was being to difficult, oh poor babies, get a life grow a pair and move onto the next episode!! Ok so I’m a little mad they killed him off, but you didn’t see them kill of Burke or Yang, No! They left it open. What’s wrong with you ABC, they never should have killed off Sloan either but there loss there his great on the last ship and cute as ever!! Just thought I’d add that in too!

Totally agree!! They Suck!! They really needed to kill him off because he was being to difficult, oh poor babies, get a life grow a pair and move onto the next episode!! Ok so I’m a little mad they killed him off. What’s wrong with you ABC, they never should have killed off Sloan either but there loss there his great on the last ship and cute as ever!! Just thought I’d add that in too!

A very cheap ending to the story Derek and Meredith created from the first night on the first season. Shonda Rhimes should be ashamed. And yeah, to just let Derek go without Meredith consulting family. Weird. And the cheap accident after Derek saved everyone–and then wasn’t careful enough to get his car out of the road. Dumb. Please let this be a stupid dream. Bring McDreamy back!

Remember when medical dramas were about humanity, saving lives and learning to appreciate life while surrounded by death? I swear, TV doctors die more often than TV cops. Droppin helicopters on them all the time.

Maybe not beautiful, but realistic. Contrary to the opinion of those who are pissed, this episode does reflect what can and does happen in real life. Good people like good dreams can and do die. It is never glamorous or dreamy.

Isn’t TV supposed to be an escape from real life? Most viewers already know what real life is like, McDreamy was a pleasant escape each week. If I want to watch real life, I can just turn off my TV.

Good comment. I’m so sad & hate that he left but not angry like everyone else.

My words exactly! I’ve watched this show religiously since day 1 and this is, by far, the worst decision they’ve made! Next week’s season finale will not be seen by me. Never thought I’d be this attached to a show. #Disappointed

His contract was for one more season after this, so it seems doubtful it was just his decision.

Ms. Rhimes wasn’t getting her arse kissed enough guys!

Even if Dempsey was wanting to leave the show, Rhimes controls the show. Yet she gave him a cheap and unrealistic ending. Sickening.

I agree! His divorce and other personal issues. He just wanted personal time.

wrong. it was 100% abc/shonda’s decision. patrick dempsey was signed on through next season (and yes that was reported everywhere). he has nothing else lined up. they pushed the Scandal finale suddenly b/c this was a last minute firing and they needed a 2 hour finale for Grey’s after his death.

Holly: ABC says in the press release above that Dempsey is leaving the show to pursue other interests. That bit of Hollywoodspeak means that Dempsey asked to be released from his contract and Shonda and ABC granted his request. It’s not exactly a secret that the last couple of times he reupped with the show, his enthusiasm for it was waning. More speculatively, it could even be that his last contract renewal — Was it at the top of this season? I forget. — was a bit more loosely defined in some legalistic way than the typical two-year renewal. That it was more along the lines of “I only want to stay through to the end of this year, but if you need a couple of episodes next season to wrap Derek’s storyline up, I could be there, however many episodes you find out that you need to make the story work for you.” You know, a Josh Charles/Good Wife sort of thing. And in the story-breaking process, Shonda and her staff figured out a way to make his storyline finish at the preferred time.

Even more speculatively (in retrospect), it’s easy to disguise a one-year agreement as a two-year agreement in the press when the two-year agreement is the standard one and the lead actress in the show also renewed for two years at the same time, don’t you think? 2)

I SO AGREE!!! My feelings exactly!!!! They did not have to kill him!!! And especially in this manner!!! Balled my eyes out like a baby!!! I am in total shock and so pissed off right now!!!

Hell I’m still mad about them killing Lexi.

I agree too. I am so upset. Haven’t cried this much in a very long while. I really don’t see myself continuing to watch the show. I don’t care if Mer knew he was gone at all. She should have picked up the phone to call his sister and family while en route to the hospital when she knew he was in an accident. I have every emotion right now. Sad, angry, disappointment, disbelief

I can’t ever watch it again either! what was the creator thinking? I give the show one more season because it’s going to lose so many viewers!

I agree it was done terribly that character deserved a more pleasant way out she should had let it end with him staying in D.C. WHATEVER IT WAS JUST AWFUL!!!!!!!

I guess it is time for the show to be off the air too many seasons already

I’m with you. I’m not watching Grey’s any longer. Patrick Dempsey was a big part of the show. Now that he’s gone, there’s no point.

Amen!! Horrible!! No thought for all of the faithful fans that watch every week!!

I agree I think this show will go down fast. This is the worst season

Beautiful what?? No nothing was beautiful about Derek dying

This is worse than a daytime soap. How is it that over half the cast throughout the years has died tragically? At least ER would just send most of their people away, and kill only a few people……i can only remember Green, Knight, Romano, Pratt….maybe Gallant….I forget if he died…..but anyway……Greys totally blows er out of the water when it comes to killing everyone off.

Denny and Henry don’t count because they were PATIENTS to start with and it was clear they were always going to die.

Seems pretty equal to me, perhaps you just care more about the characters on Grey’s then you did about the ones on E/R (with the exception of Dr. Doug Ross who a star).

I’m a different B. And I couldn’t disagree more. That was awful. Unworthy. Absurdly written with caricatures for doctors (perhaps excepting the red-haired woman) to force an outcome. The outcome could have been the same with competent doctors because of course they can’t save everyone. Why write them so poorly, so ridiculously? As others have said, why not helicopter Derek to a level-1 trauma center? Land in the freakin’ parking lot if you have to. Just absurd and unworthy. I swore I’d stick with Gray’s to the end, but I’m really not sure now. It needs to end anyway. So much feels forced anymore; just end it.

Derek’s injuries weren’t believed to be as severe as they turned out to be at the time he was delivered to this hospital. IMO, the doctors at this non-trauma hospital weren’t written poorly — Shonda made the point 100% clear when she had Derek note that these Doctors were not trained to handle traumas. The Red-Haired Doctor wasn’t as assertive as any trauma surgeon of any gender would be, even though she was right, her Attending was dismissive, overconfident and totally out of his league regarding Derek’s head injuries, but knew what he was doing in his area of expertise, which was general surgery pertaining to the injuries Derek suffered over the rest of his body. Also, while Derek was stabilized at the turning point moment where they failed to take him to get a Head CT, he wasn’t necessarily stable enough to survive a flight to the nearest Trauma Center (almost certainly Grey/Sloane, of course). These are, in fact, competent doctors — while the failure to get the Head CT was a bad call, it likely didn’t rise to the level of malpractice and the territory arguments that Meredith and Pierce had at the beginning of the season regarding which tests to run when showed Pierce learning the same lesson as the Red-Haired doctor with a better outcome because she *did* assert herself. But then again, Pierce had the benefit of actually being the head of the cardio department at Grey/Sloane, an urban trauma center, while Dr. Red Hair was just a leading resident at a suburban non-trauma center. Trauma Centers don’t grow on trees — and the stark difference in the level of expertise between this suburban hospital and Grey/Sloane, as illustrated in the competent, but far-from-cutting-edge treatment that Derek got — is especially poignant for people in the San Francisco Bay Area this week as the city of San Pablo lost its only hospital with an ER.

Knew this was coming… rats wanna leave the sinking ship, and that cold hearted b*tch, Shonda, she aint gonna let them go easy… nothing beautiful about this episode, cheap shock-tactics to try and save the ship. I see you Shonda-one-trick-pony… Milk it while you can honey, people are slowly getting sick of your shonda-nanogans… :-)

Wow haven’t seen this much anger since Obama was elected president. Patrick Dempsey has barely been on this season HE wanted to leave and Shonda has a staff of writers.

So this kind of dashes my hopes for a “coma”, “miracle” and other visions of it didn’t happen. Sigh. RIP Derek Shepherd.

Yeah, I thought maybe a transfer then a miracle, so sad

I didn’t know this was coming. I kept waiting for the flash of bright light to say it wasn’t real. Because that happened so often this episode, it in a way distracted from the sadness.

When the police lights reflected on Meredith’s window last week, it was clear that he was dead. Anyone with enough life experience knew that. We had a week to prepare for this. It was inevitable. In fact, if he were still alive after tonight, it would have been a cheat, and i really would have been angry.

It was expected but kind of disappointed, he died on the hands of terrible surgeons

Yes, that was an interesting story. TV never explores the problem of bad or insufficiently trained doctors (it also points out the problem of doctors who are intimidated by other doctors). That gives this episode an interesting edge.

Creatively, I’m looking forward to the exciting twists and turns to come… The sexism of the two male doctors (original and too-late-neuro) towards the young and smart female surgeon was typical behaviour. Many women have to deal with that every day in their lives/careers.

All the life experience in the world wouldn’t be enough to predict the choices that Shonda might make on any given day.

Oh, come on. Shonda is as predictable as the Crazy Internet People who are freaking out tonight!

From the previews it looks like Meredith is going somewhere after the funeral. I hope she goes to see Cristina, even if we don’t actually get to see Cristina. After Lexie and multiple scares with Derek’s life, I know Meredith is more prepared than anyone would be to lose Derek, but she still needs Cristina. Wow. This is still so crazy.

Sandra should really come back for this. It’s not as though she burned any bridges when she left, and there’s no reason why she wouldn’t drop everything for Meredith after this.

Well that’s pretty much it then. No reason to renew as next season it will have no ratings. Best now to end it here.

Derek’s only been in a handful of episodes lately. His presence does not make or break ratings by any means. Don’t be dramatic.

He may not have been in many episodes this season, but after 11 years of ups and downs with him and Mer, and now they were finally happy without major drama, and then it ends Luke this? They should have just left him in D.C. This was horrible writing!

But we never really knew anything for sure, with him only being in a handful of shows. There was always that chance that he was going to stay on.

DerMer should’ve ended together. Now that he is gone, what was the 11 seasons all about for her? What did she fight for in the beginning? The show needs to end. End while it can on a good note instead of a bad spiral down, it will never be the same withouth McDreamy

He wasn’t on air very many episodes as is. I still found the show interesting. Patrick Dempsey is not this show.

It’s called Grey’s Anatomy and this is not the first time we have lost major characters. It always keeps moving

Nicely stated. I am so tired of the threat to never watch again, etc. It is the turning saga of a drama series.

Yes but still, they were the happy couple that no matter how much Stuff happened in the show, it always came back to them, their beginning, their talks in bed, their sweet adoption and their struggles, their sticky note that meant more than a legal contract. It’s a sad ending for Grey’s because it proves that no one, Not even MerDer can be happily ever after in this show. What’s the point? More heart ache?!?! No thanks!

Agreed! I don’t understand why this show has to keep killing off characters like this, and to kill off Derek??? It doesn’t make sense. Why didn’t they just leave him in D.C? He could have been there without being on the show. Done with this show!

Writing this through tears. What a great episode. I’ve never been the biggest Derek fan, but Meredith is my favorite so this does not make me happy because of the effect its going to have on her. I really didn’t think they were going to kill Derek though. Thought they would find some other way to write him out, so he and Meredith could still be end game.

So will Cristina be returning for an ep? Meredith can’t deal with this without her person.

yeah there’s no way Christina wouldn’t fly a jet herself to be there for Mer. I’m wondering what nonsense they’ll come up with if she’s not. Ugh. I can’t even. I get Patrick wanted time off, then give him some. He could have worked for POTUS and only referenced on the show. But no. Shonda doesn’t know how to write mature relationships, so she does what she always does and kills them off. For that reason I never watched Scandal or HTGAWM because I was so over her writing style. I haven’t watched this in years but did tonight just to see if she’d do it. So yeah I’m done. So done.

The exact same group of words I have used for the last hour ~

All I can say is that freaking hospital is CURSED. Cursed worse than Kennedy men (not named Ted). Life expectancy for doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital: Low.

There is a vast void in my soul now that McDreamy is gone. I loved that man!

I think it’s time for the show to end. She literally killed the series couple of the show for 11 years and gave the middle finger to all the fans that have invested 11 years in this relationship. I am disgusted and I am not watching this show anymore.

I agree. The season finale needs to be the series finale.

No. It was hers. I’m almost positive he was fired because of his “attitude” she did not like.

It’s pretty funny how Shonda has fired how many characters now for “diva attitude”??? I think the problem is her and her only. She’s the diva and the reason this show isn’t going to last more than 3-4 episodes next season. Mcdreamy was signed on to finish out season 12 and they had an argument….she suspended him for a few episodes then decided to fire him. Brutal and I refuse to watch anything that Rhimes creates!

Again, that’s all in your overactive imagination. You have no proof of any of your theories. Crazy Internet People.

People have been saying this since S4

I have to watch next week….but after that it’s goodbye time

Well said….and 100% agree..he could gave stayed in coma…stayed in DC and car end of show they are together…its like all Meredith has fought for in 11yrs…doesn’t mean a thing…e1 dies on her..her mom. Her da . Her sister..George…her best friend leaves and now the love if her life… Which is the glue ofvthus TV show..sorry but their relationship is… it is disgusting as a fan to feel like the jokes on us. .I will never ever watch another minute of it….poor taste…

I agree … Just because there was some personal differences goin in off screen have the decency to maybe leave him in a coma or working in DC but was really a bummer to just write him off literally after Dempsey contributed so much to the show in the first place. He and Meredith were the show as far as I am concerned and that did it for me. No point to watch anymore. Show is dying and DNR.

Who said anything about personal differences? Sometimes, people just leave. There doesn’t always have to be drama in real life.

Well that’s one Grey’s death I never though I’d ever see.

Has Sandra Oh booked a guest star gig? Cause she absolutely has to be there.

I seriously stopped taking Grey’s Anatomy seriously years ago. Not even in ER that many people died.

During the show I was so mad… I am still LIVID. I can’t believe they would do this, and that they’d bring Derrick back just to kill him… I’m so over it, so upset, and so so disappointed…

If you were such a fan of Derek’s, you would think you’d learn how to spell his name.

TVGord, now you’re getting personal. Your opinions are not more important than anyone else’s. Stop already

When did I say my opinions were more important than anyone else’s. and how is it getting personal by pointing out that someone has misspelled a name THAT IS IN THE STORY ABOVE?

They brought him back so he and Meredith could be all lovey dovey again so that when he was killed off, Meredith’s memories of him, her mourning and the way she talked about him would be all McFlowery. In reality, Patrick wanted out, he is having a lot of personal issues, he was fence teetering, so Shondra pulled the wishy washy plug.

Shocked, sad part is I didn’t really believe he was really dead till I read this article since you never know with Greys….which meant I didn’t really appreciate it while watching

please don’t try to find another love interest for MER nobody is going to be good enough for her like McDreamy !! so sad

Yes. I get that she is young& deserves to be happy in a new relationship but her love was Derek. I could never see her with anyone else.

What if Finn come back? Then they can bond over their widowness.

honestly what human being wouldn’t be in a straight jacket dribbling drool on themselves if they had to deal with everything the character of Meredith has had to deal with nobody is not strong nobody. in real life anybody would have been broken down and be unable to function at some point after all this tragedy…its too much…over the top…kinda makes regular soap operas look normal atctjis point lol

You’d be surprised how much tragedy real life people have endured and carried on.

I agree,,,since day one, this show has been way over the top! That’s Shonda’s trademark.

I am in shock!! Stuned. I will miss Derek. I cried like he was a friend of mine.

Oh me too, so sad, I can’t believe he’s gone.. Poor mer!!!! what if she’s pregnant??? You guys remember he talked her into having another baby? Aww I’m so sad for her!!!

I totally was thinking the same thing about her being pregnant. Would they really make her pregnant and have to go thru all that alone?

I hate greys anatomy now. gotta find something else to watch cuz i can’t deal with this bs writing anymore. why do you have to keep killing people.

I’m so mad. Did he quit or did he get fired? Why do they insist on killing everybody? They killed Mark. They killed Lexie. Now, they just have to kill Derek?! They should have killed Izzie and left everybody else on the show. It doesn’t make a show better by killing the characters that we have all loved and grown with over the years. It’s senseless. I hope this marks the end of this show. I can’t imagine Castle killing Rick or Bones killing Booth. This makes no sense to the fans who loved Grey’s and loved Derek!

Dempsey was leaving (he’s talked about it for years!). How else could they write him out? Would it be better if they had his character cheat on Meredith and run off with someone else?

This show should be killed off. Seems like anytime one of the actors tells the truth about their characters and the shaky writing they are killed off. Scandal is next. Anyone complain on that show yet? It’s starting to bore too.

Oh shush you. What did we say about telling the truth?

Why does Grey’s feel the need to kill every other character off?

Cheap and horrible episode. I will never watch a Shondra Rhimes episode again maybe never watch tv again. Just turned Scandal off and really wanted to see the end of it because I love Joe Morton.

Will be interesting to see if show can maintain. Too many people have left. Derek had big following

You just ruin everything!!!! There’s no more sence of this show…. Not any more… The only true here…. You don’t care about fans…

Wow…I kept expecting him to recover. That was so sad. I cried more than Meredith.

I thought the same thing she will definitely be pregnant because last week they had a little blurb with Derek saying he wanted more kids and he wanted to start now so you know she’s going to be pregnant and Chandra will probably have the baby I don’t know have a serious health issue or something she can’t have it die because she just did that with April and Jackson its just too depressing and it won’t matter cuz I’m not watching it anymore anyway just too much depression for me…

When Sondra writes an episode, someone dies

Im sick of her killing off mostly everyone on the show because she doesn’t like them or finds them difficult. Sometimes people are difficult or going through something (like a divorce). I get it she doesn’t “deal with aholes” but my God. What a horrible thing to do with all the people Meredith Grey loves.

Who in the heck rummages for a phone while stopped in the middle of the road? It was a dumb way to die. I honestly don’t mind Derek dying, and I even thought it was amusing when they threw in the little bit of comedy (I’m going to die because you’re not properly trained.), but is anyone seriously that stupid of a person?

His brand new Porsche would have blue tooth calling…my husband thought it was the dumbest television I have ever made him watch.

Wtf?! Nooooooo. I mean it’s not surprising because of his lack of presence this season but did they really have to kill him?! I cannot believe this!!

Ugh!!!! Guess that answers my question if I watch next season or not. Bravo Patrick Dempsey on a remarkable last episode. Now to update your scorecard to include this ultimate sad death! 😭

This wrecked me, almost more than the plane crash. I kept thinking he’d wake up. Just wrecked.

To the people complaining: this was Dempsey’s choice to leave. I read an interview that he had a few weeks ago and he said in his post-divorce life he wants to focus 100% on racing. I kind of knew the writing was on the wall for Derek then. Clearly Dempsey wasn’t into the role anymore, and probably shut the door on a return which is why this ended in Derek’s death.

Shonda didn’t have to end it like this to his fans, specially merders. RIP Derek.

What the heck just happened? Shocked does not even begin to describe what I am feeling.

Does this REALLY surprise anyone?? She pulled the same crap with as she did with George…have him largely absent and the just when he’s happy, kill him. I can’t believe I keep watching her shows.

There are other ways to let an actor go. Why does this show always opt for the saddest way possible? Shows are meant to be an escape from the realities of our everyday lives. I understand that they can’t always be sunshine and rainbows, but this show has too much tragedy. It’s not even realistic any longer. Talented writers come up with better ways to let an actor go.

The show killing Derek was probably the only way they could do it because he would never leave Meredith and their kids for good.Plus it might give Ellen Pompeo some going material as Meredith mourns Derek.

As I’m sitting here wrong away my years, I will never watch Grey’s again. Shonda just got rid of the only reason I watched that show all these years.

There are not enough tissues in the universe. This episode broke me. I don’t cry at tv shows but this one I did. I don’t want to go on watching without McDreamy. Their love story I truly enjoyed.

I do cry at TV shows but this one had me bawling like my own husband had died. My word. I truly did not believe he was going to die.

The problem with this show is that they don’t reward the fans for watching — ever since the plane crash and taking the leg from one of the brightest characters on the show — it just is too depressing. And really what awful writing — the doctor who didn’t save him is crying and is asking meredith how she knows that she will be a good doctor? After saying that she wasn’t able to save him because she wasn’t a good enough doctor?

Truly a disappointment, but hey Derek had become almost non existent, now do I agree with the exit well no, because I always believe in keeping the doors open cause u never know if you may want to return. So truly we can’t be angry when these Actors and Actresses choose to do other things, rather out of boredom or whatever reason. The bottom line is they are characters playing a part and it’s no different than any of us being bored with our day to day jobs sometimes we need more so I say go Patrick Dempsey and good luck in finding what you’re looking for, I’ve always enjoyed his acting since I was young and I’ll continue to enjoy it no matter what. As for Grey’s Anatomy, well Shonda Rhimes I look forward to seeing what you have in store for us true fans, whom truly appreciate the brilliance you’ve constantly stunned me with, good luck and thank you.

I understand the death of Derek, it was the ou way to let him off the show that would make sense. I just completely disagree with the way they did it. He is one of the top brain surgeons in the world, hand picked by the president for his work, and he dies in the hands of incompetent doctors …. Poorly done very poorly done. Have him die I get it …. He would never leave his family any other way, but have him doe with some dignity. It was def sad and brought out the tears ….but behind the tears was anger. and having him aware of the fact that he was going to die cause the doctors were idiots … Really?! I hope she dies this hospital too for malpractice!

“He is one of the top brain surgeons in the world, hand picked by the president for his work, and he dies in the hands of incompetent doctors ….”

It is this irony that makes it tragically poetic. That part of the story is good writing. I am much more disturbed by the fact that he stopped in the middle of a road to look for a phone. BTW, a spot of the road that was previously a dead zone. That was lazy and amateurish writing totally void of creativity.

That scene was ridiculous. As a surgeon or even a non-surgeon doctor, Meredith would have read the chart and noticed that the CT of his head was never done and that the neurosurgeon took an hour an a half to show up, and all she does is tell the woman wasn’t good enough? Totally unrealistic. Every healthcare worker who saw this show should be disgusted. Meredith will turn up pregnant and that will somehow make up for this? Even though they were testing the waters this season by having him largely gone, there was still the belief that he would be back, so no where near close testing waters. I found the show lacking this season and didn’t watch for days at times. Without Dempsey, Pompeo is the only strong character and she’s not enough to carry the shore and she is too strong with too stiff a back to be likable even. He made her human, and I do think the show needed him. I will watch next week, but think this is the shark for this is the shark for this show. It was for me.

That was the problem I had with the way Meredith acted. She read the chart, which by the way the doctor gave to her, not knowing Meredith was a doc also. So Meredith had to see that there was no ct for a major trauma and the on call doc didn’t show up for almost 2 hrs. No way she wouldn’t be raising cainl. Plus, she had plenty of time to call Derek’s sister. They wouldn’t take him off the event until Meredith said to.

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