How does izzie die

And after Izzie caught Alex sleeping with Nurse Olivia , she ended their relationship and was furious with him. When Izzie discovered her friends were helping Alex study for his failed boards she blew up at them although she eventually forgave him and helped him study as well.

Even though she forgave him she ruled out the possibility of another relationship with him. When there was a bomb scare in the hospital, Izzie felt she needed to do what she wanted before it was too late.

She proceeded to have sex with Alex in a linen closet again several times throughout the day. Alex assumed that they were dating again but Meredith told him that they were only sleeping together and Izzie wouldn't ever think of him the same after his incident with Olivia.

Later, Izzie gave Alex an ultimatum. She told him either to be the nice guy or the jerk but he couldn't be both. He kissed her and they later decided to go steady. Things went well but Denny began to appear to Izzie and she even had sex with him.

Shockingly, it turned out that the appearances of Denny were because of an illness she had. Meredith and Derek gave their wedding to Izzie after discovering her tumor and she got married to Alex. Izzie's time with cancer was rough, and it took a toll on her relationship with Alex. Eventually, she did come back, wanting to reunite with Alex when she found out her cancer was gone.

However, he refused, wanting someone who would stay. Soon afterwards, she sent him divorce papers and he signed them. When Meredith needed letters for her trial, Alex called Izzie, and in their conversation she revealed that she had given birth to twins, using a frozen embryo that she and Alex had saved when she was starting her cancer treatment.

He went to Kansas to visit them, decided to stay, and began a life with Izzie and their family. When Denny was readmitted to the hospital after suffering cardiac dysrhythmia, Izzie brushed Alex off so she could tend to Denny.

Alex felt threatened by Denny so he told Denny he should back off because he would probably die from heart failure and if he did it would hurt Izzie. When Izzie found out that Alex said this to Denny, she confronted him and he replied that she could not get involved with patients. She later realized that she did not have to settle for Alex.

However, Denny survived and they grew closer. He had an LVAD inserted to keep him alive for longer so he could wait for a heart, but after finding out that Denny had become a DNR do not resuscitate patient, Izzie jumped at the chance to get him a new heart. After discovering that he lost a donor heart to someone on the donor list who was ahead of him by 17 seconds, she implored him to let her cut his LVAD wire so his condition would worsen and he would move up on the donor list. At first, Denny refused because it would end her medical career and he didn't want to steal a heart out of another man's chest but after Izzie broke down crying and begged him, he agreed.

As the interns struggled to keep Denny alive, Cristina informed them that Denny's surgeon, Preston Burke , was shot and struggling to survive. After hearing the news, Izzie panicked, completely at a loss.

In the midst of the chaos, Denny proposed to a shocked Izzie. Miranda Bailey walked in on the interns and banned them all from any surgeries until the person who cut the LVAD wire confessed.

Meanwhile, Alex invited Dr. Erica Hahn to replace Dr. Burke on Denny's heart transplant surgery. Hahn successfully completed Denny's transplant surgery and when Izzie visited Denny after his transplant she accepted his marriage proposal.

Denny died from a stroke shortly thereafter leaving Izzie devastated and lying next to Denny's body. Alex carried her off the bed and told her that the body wasn't Denny and that Denny loved her and he wouldn't want Izzie to do this to herself. After a long period of mourning, Izzie moved on but refused Alex's offer of a relationship. When Izzie discovered that George liked Meredith, she encouraged him to tell her.

Eventually, he did but after his disastrous sexual encounter with her, he moved out of the house, much to Izzie's disappointment. Despite several attempts, George refuses to tell Izzie where he is currently living. Eventually, he moved back in and frequently had his new girlfriend, Dr. Callie Torres , over, much to Izzie's dismay. Izzie made it very clear to George that she disapproved of her presence in his life because she considered Callie a freak. After taking multiple jibes, Callie told George it was because Izzie was in love with him.

After Callie disclosed the fact that she was somewhat wealthy and was paying most of their bills herself and didn't mind doing so, a hurt George told Meredith, who told Izzie. Izzie used this information when making a snide remark about Callie, knowing it would hit a nerve. Infuriated at his indiscretion, Callie kicked George out of their hotel room after voicing her opinion that Izzie "had feelings" for George.

Upset and confused, George went to Izzie and Meredith's house with a bottle of bourbon and after getting drunk, Izzie and George slept together. The next day, George had no recollection of their intimacy the previous night and didn't remember until he was having lunch with Callie and her father. George confronted Izzie about it in a linen closet at the hospital and after they almost kissed, George left in a surge of guilt.

Later, Izzie wanted to tell Callie but George insisted that it be kept a secret. While dealing with the aftermath of her sexual encounter with George, Izzie was visited by the adoptive parents of the child she had given up years before.

Hannah, now 11, is sick with leukemia and her donor for a bone marrow transplant had died the previous night. Izzie asked if she could meet Hannah, her parents agreed if Hannah wanted to. Izzie agreed to donate bone marrow to save her daughter's life, causing her emotional grief, Dr. Bailey helped Izzie keep her daughter a secret from the other interns and helped her during the beginning of the bone marrow harvest.

Hannah's parents informed Izzie that Hannah was tired and maybe Izzie could meet Hannah when she was better. Despite this, Izzie still agreed to donate bone marrow. George noticed Izzie crying earlier and went to find her. He stayed with her for the rest of the harvest, setting aside other emotions. In the recovery room, Izzie confides in George that she has a daughter and says she needs their friendship to survive even though the sex wasn't tragic like the encounter with him and Meredith.

George was still conflicted with his feelings for Izzie and his guilt in betraying Callie, he left Izzie crying in the room, only to return once he realized Izzie needed help as a friend.

George came with Izzie when she saw her daughter for the first time, noting that Hannah had Izzie's eyes and mouth. Following this, Izzie and George pretended that everything was fine, and continued to spend time together as friends. As Callie became more suspicious, she confronted Izzie and begged her to relinquish George which prompted Izzie to guiltily withdraw from him. He married Kepner and had two children, one son named Samuel, whom died of osteogenesis imperfecta type 2 and one daughter named Harriet….

But showrunner Krista Vernoff has made it clear he will be coming back and is going to make the odd appearance in the rest of series At the wedding, Jackson realizes he still loves April and stands up professing his love. Jackson and April are seen driving off together at the start of the following episode and later it is revealed that they have secretly gotten married after they ran off together. Both Sarah and Jessica Capshaw, who played Dr.

When Clark entered the room, he asked Charles if he was a surgeon. After Charles said he was a surgeon, Clark shot him. Miranda Bailey — who was hiding underneath a hospital bed at the time of the shooting — immediately tried to help Charles. She held him while he took his last breath. Heather Brooks Tina Majorino , a new intern introduced in season 9, died by electrocution after selflessly searching for Richard Webber during the super storm in season Adele Webber Loretta Devine , who was Dr.

Richard Webber's first wife, suffered from Alzheimer's towards the end of her journey on Grey's Anatomy. After successfully undergoing surgery for a brain aneurysm, Adele eventually died of a heart attack in season 9.

Mark Sloan Eric Dane — a. After the crash, Sloan spent two months in the hospital, only waking up once, and eventually fell into a coma. After 30 days on a life support machine, his best friend Derek Shepherd and the mother of his daughter, Callie Torres, decided to take him off life support.

Lexie Grey Chyler Leigh , Meredith Grey's younger half-sister, wasn't so lucky when it came to the plane crash. Lexie was trapped underneath a piece of aircraft in the season 8 finale.

Teddy Altman Kim Raver proposed to Henry so he could legally be on her insurance and get the surgery he needed. After a successful surgery, Henry and Teddy began to develop feelings for one another and their relationship eventually turned romantic.

However, in season 8, it was revealed Henry had a tumor near his heart, causing bleeding in his lungs and trachea. The talented surgeon appeared for the first time in Season 1 of Grey's Anatomy, and she quickly established herself as a core member of the team. Her motherly nature and kind-hearted approach made her stand out from the other interns. By Season 4, she managed to earn the good graces of Dr. Addison Montgomery Kate Walsh , a world-class surgeon leading the obstetrics and gynecology department at the Seattle Grace Hospital.

However, Izzie's incredible interpersonal skills and remarkable ability to bond with patients didn't always pay off. Season 1 and Season 2 chronicled her struggles to maintain a sense of distance, and she ended up getting herself into fishy situations on several occasions.

In "17 Seconds," we watched the ambitious intern cut a heart transplant patient, Denny Duquette's Jeffrey Dean Morgan LVAD cord in a bid to save his life, only for the plan to backfire miserably.