Saddest TV death?

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'Kay I'll probably get relentlessly teased for this but Cassie Newman on Y&R

David the Gnome

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUGHevBPpOE[/youtube]

Yeah, I remember when I saw that episode and I was stunned (particularly how the end credits rolled silently over Adric's broken gold star).

Two t.v. deaths that I thought were pretty sad. One was in the third season of 24 when Jack Bauer is blackmailed by the terrorist to execute Regional Director Ryan Chapelle. Up until that episode, Chapelle was kind of cold and aloof hardass, but then I really felt for the guy and it seemed that in the moments before his death that he was actually a pretty lonely man.

The second t.v. death was in the fifth season of Smallville when Jonathan Kent dies. Actually, it's in the very next episode after Jonathan's death when Clark is watching an old home movie of his father that the impact of his passing really hits home.

-Kenny and Chef from South Park (Which was made even more painful by the death of Isaac Hayes not long after)
-Tasha Yar from Star Trek, as mentioned previously.
-Half of the deaths in Full Metal Alchemist
-Most of the deaths in Berserk and Elfen Lied. In the case of the latter, the constant playing of Lilium didn't mitigate the tears any.
-the momentary "death" of Batgirl in Batman: TAS. It was a bit of a shocker to me when I first watched it, especially since it pitched Commissioner Gordon into a vengeful manhunt of the Dark Knight
-the death of Dinobot (the first one) in Beast Wars. Though I will admit, Dinobot went out in style.

Oh, yeah, Fullmetal Alchemist... I think Ed Elric's death (however temporary) in the first anime takes the prize for shock value, but Hughes and the Elrics' mom were saddest.

And Inuyasha... Kikyo's whole existence, which for the story essentially begins with her death. The theme music written for her is some of the saddest I've heard.