17 Times Grey's Anatomy Made You the Person You Are Today

And we questioned everything about our emotional well-being. Seriously, we didn't know if we were going to be able to go on.

This scene has been talked and analyzed to death, but in the moment, it felt like Grey's was reaching directly into our chest and squeezing our hearts into submission. Derek's unexpected death sent him out like a hero — he dies saving other folks — but it also leaves Meredith (and us, for that matter) as a hollow shell of a human. We just weren't ready to say goodbye to McDreamy just yet.