Death

Death was the cessation of life. The Ninth Doctor told Rose that "everything dies". (TV: ) Every single death caused a tiny fracture in reality. (TV: ) In 2011, three hundred thousand people died on Earth every day. (TV: ) Deaths were recorded by death certificates. (TV: )
In the Dark Times of the universe, death was unknown to cosmos before the Kotturuh began their campaign, dispensing death to the early planets. (PROSE: ) During the period of Gallifreyan history in which they referred to themselves as "the Space Lords", they knew of this new concept as "the Ultimate". (COMIC: ) When the Tenth Doctor found himself warring against the Kotturuh on Andalia, he used a sample of their genetic material to reverse-engineer their necrotic retro-virus and turn it against them, causing the Kotturuh to quickly wither away. (PROSE: ) Along with the Ninth Doctor, the Tenth Doctor would later ponder if he had actually changed time but noted that the demise of the Kotturuh meant that death would now spread naturally and dispassionately across the universe. (PROSE: )
The Eternal, Death, was a personification of the concept. (PROSE: ) Kali was the Hindu goddess of death. (COMIC: ) On Earth, and later human colonies, the skull was a generalised symbol of death, and the idea took this form as an emoji: 💀. (TV: )
When discussing the idea of a "planet ruled by zombies", the Fourth Doctor remembered the quote that "the living are just the dead on vacation." (TV: ) Voicing her observations on the human lifespan, which she found "hilarious[ly]" short, stated that human beings were born dying, remarking "You know from the minute you slop out, you're rotting, decaying." (TV: )
As Arboretans existed partly outside of time, when one died, their consciousness travelled back to their birth and they lived their life over again, trying to fix mistakes they had made until they achieved the best life possible. They called this "the path of perfection". (PROSE: )
In 2011, for several months following the Miracle Day, every human on Earth simply stopped dying. It was caused when the Three Families fed the immortal Jack Harkness' blood into the Blessing, which in turn relayed the template to everyone on the planet in seconds. Death was restored when Jack's mortal blood was fed into the Blessing and the original template was restored. All across the world, those who were unable to die yet should have died, including Geraint Cooper and a little girl, all took one final collective breath before dying. For them, the return of mortality was a mercy for them. In the case of others, like the Mother and the Cousin who were responsible for the whole thing, it came back with a vengeance. (TV: , )
In the final stages of mental shutdown, when physical shutdown would commence, brainsteam death was a sign closely followed by complete respiratory collapse. Soon, liver failure and renal collapse would signal general systemic failure, leading to death within an hour. (PROSE: )
The Ashtallans, a race of immortals gifted with prodigious healing, had no concept of death until they met the First Doctor and his companions. (AUDIO: )
On her Spacebook profile, Missy, formerly the Master, acknowledged that she had first died thirteen times before before taking over "some bloke's body". (PROSE: ') In fact, , who claimed to be nearing the end of his "twelfth regeneration", had acquired "" in the Trakenite Tremas. (TV: ) Surviving his execution on Skaro as a Deathworm Morphant, took the body of Bruce, a human. (TV: ) The Master then died a further three times before becoming a human, then stopped being a human before dying for the then , after which the Master became Missy. (PROSE: ')
TERI_LOVER thought that they were going to die when on the London Eye (PROSE: ) when the Nestene Consciousness activated it. (TV: , PROSE: ) Mickey Smith thought that Clive Finch had "tirelessly" dedicated his life to searching for the truth about the Doctor, with his reward being death. (PROSE: )
After the Slitheen craft crashed into the River Thames on 6 March 2006, Mickey, (TV: ) going by "Mx", was ecstatic that his and Clive's suspicions about the Ninth Doctor — that wherever he went, danger and death followed — was going to be finally believed. (PROSE: )
After Rose Tyler broke into the TARDIS and looked into its heart and returned to the Ninth Doctor at the Game Station, (TV: ) Rose didn't contact Mickey or Jackie, leading Mickey to believe she had died. (PROSE: )
== Death and the Doctor ==
Clive Finch warned Rose Tyler that the Doctor had one constant companion: death. (TV: ) Indeed, several of the Doctor's adventures resulted in the deaths of all who participated except for him and his companions. Among these were the Fourth Doctor and Leela's conflict with a Rutan scout at Fang Rock, (TV: ) the Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem's conflict with Jarra To at the Axis, (AUDIO: ) their later visit to YT45, (AUDIO: ) the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher's visit to Eugene's World, (AUDIO: ) the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex's conflict against the Daleks on Bliss, (AUDIO: ) the Eighth Doctor and Audacity Montague's conflict with the Cybermen, (AUDIO: ) the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness in the Battle of the Game Station, (TV: ) the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and River Song's conflict against the Weeping Angels on Alfava Metraxis (TV: ) and the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams' visit to House's bubble universe. (TV: ) In one unusual case, the participants all died after the Doctor departed, (AUDIO: ) and in another, they all died before he arrived. (COMIC: ) On one planet, the Fourth Doctor suspected that his friends the Guardian Angels had all died, but left without confirming this. (COMIC: )
In other cases, the Doctor's adventures resulted in the deaths of all but a few of the participants. These included the Second Doctor, Polly and Ben's conflict against the Daleks on Vulcan, which only Quinn and Valmar survived, (TV: ) the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith's conflict against Sutekh in 1911, which only Ahmed survived, though another account said he did not, (TV: ) the Fifth Doctor's visit to Sharnax, which only Kylo survived, (AUDIO: ) the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough's conflict against the Silurians and Sea Devils in 2084, which only Bulic survived, (TV: ) the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough's encounter with the Daleks, which only Davros, Lytton and his two policemen survived, (TV: ) the Fifth Doctor and Peri's visit to Androzani Minor, which only Timmin survived, (TV: ) the Sixth Doctor and Peri's conflict against the Sontarans in Spain, which only Anita survived, (TV: ) the Sixth Doctor and Peri's visit to Necros, which only Takis and Lilt survived, (TV: ) the Sixth Doctor and Mel's visit to Albatross Alpha, which only Hebe Harrison survived, (AUDIO: ) the Seventh Doctor and Mel's visit to Puxatornee, which only the Slithergees survived, (AUDIO: ) the Seventh Doctor and Ace's conflict against the Gods of Ragnarok on Segonax, which only Kingpin, Mags and a stallslady survived, (TV: ) the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield's visit to the Althosian system, which only Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu and William Blake survived, (PROSE: ) the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex's conflict against the Cybermen in 2021, which only Mark Mathias survived, (AUDIO: ) the Eighth Doctor, Charley and C'rizz's visit to the Cube, which only Gorden Latch and the brain-worm survived, (AUDIO: ) the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller's conflict against the Zygons, which only Haygoth survived, (AUDIO: ) their later conflict with the Molluscari on Orbis, which only the Headhunter survived, (AUDIO: ) the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble's conflict against the Pyroviles in Pompeii, which only Caecilius, Metella, Evelina and Quintus survived, (TV: ) the Tenth Doctor's conflict against the Flood on Mars, which only Mia Bennett and Yuri Kerenski survived, (TV: ) the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald's conflict with the sandmen on Le Verrier, which only Jagganth Daiki-Nagata survived, (TV: ) and the Thirteenth Doctor's journey to Orphan 55 with Yaz, Ryan and Graham in which only Nevi and Sylas escaped. (TV: )
When pressed by Brian Williams, the Eleventh Doctor admitted that some of his companions had died during the course of his adventures but noted that this was a small number. (TV: )
Mx shared Clive's belief that wherever the Doctor went, danger and death followed. (PROSE: )
== Jack Harkness ==
In an alternate timeline, Captain Jack Harkness was shot dead by a cyber-converted Rose Tyler while in the company of the Ninth Doctor. (COMIC: )
In the year 200,100, Jack was exterminated by the Daleks invading the Game Station. Shortly after, however, he was revived by the Bad Wolf entity, who made him immortal. (TV: ) As a result, Jack died and was resurrected many times. (TV: ) In 200,101, Jack was forced to interact with live cables to safely land Trear Station on Earth, electrocuting him. Reviving, Jack reasoned that the universe "like[d]" him. (AUDIO: )
Using a vortex manipulator to travel to Earth, ending up in 1868, Jack did not realise he was immortal until 1892, when he woke up after a man shot him through the heart in Ellis Island. Over a period of at least a century Jack waited for the Doctor. Before reuniting with the TARDIS in 2008, Jack had died by falling off a cliff, being trampled by horses, World War I, World War II, poison, starvation and a stray javelin. (TV: )
Shortly after meeting Gwen Cooper, Jack was shot in the head by Suzie Costello. In a matter of seconds, Jack revived with his head wound healing. (TV: ) Confronting the partially cyber-converted Lisa Hallett, Jack was, in quick succession, fatally electrocuted by her twice, noting that he was not so easily "deleted". (TV: )
While attempting to stop his teammates from using the Rift Manipulator, Jack was shot in the head by Owen Harper. Though he revived soon after, Jack was still physically weakened as he faced Abaddon, a giant demon who fed on life that was rampaging through Cardiff, killing all in his shadow. Jack, noting that he would be an "all you can eat buffet" for Abaddon, stepped into his shadow. In what proved to be a painful process for Jack, his excess life energy eventually killed the demon before Jack perished as well. His body was taken back to the Hub, where Owen found no vital signs, deeming him "ice cold". However, after a few days, Jack revived once again. (TV: )
Aboard the Valiant, Jack was shot dead by the laser screwdriver wielded by who, aware that Jack was immortal, gleefully noted that he could kill him again. (TV: ) Throughout the Year That Never Was, Jack was held prisoner aboard the Valiant. By the end of the year, Jack made an escape attempt which resulted in him being shot dead by the Valiants security personnel. (TV: )
Shortly following the Year That Never Was, Jack reunited with Captain John Hart, who threw him off a building to his death. It was only after Jack returned to the Hub that John realised he was now immortal. (TV: ) Later, Jack was killed by Death. (TV: )
Between his first encounter with Torchwood and his reunion with Gray, Jack had died a total of 1,392 times. (TV: ) In the Hub, Jack was fatally shot by John Hart, who restrained him before he could revive. John, who had been coerced by Gray, took Jack back to 27 AD, where he was buried alive in the soil of Cardiff, as his brother made his intentions clear. (TV: )
Eventually, Jack was uncovered by Torchwood Cardiff members Alice Guppy and Charles Gaskell in 1901, at a point in time where his past self was working for them. Avoiding interacting with his earlier self, Jack instructed them to freeze him in the morgue for 107 years. (TV: )
During the 21st century Dalek invasion, Jack was exterminated by the Supreme Dalek aboard the Crucible, discreetly reviving in seconds. (TV: )
At St Helen's Hospital, Jack was shot dead by Rupesh Patanjali on behalf of the British government, who intended to destroy Torchwood. Reviving, Jack returned to the Hub, unaware that a bomb had been planted within him. By chance, Jack discovered this as the bomb was exposed by the scanner which confirmed Gwen's pregnancy. With a blast radius of one mile and only two minutes before detonation, Jack remained behind as he ordered Gwen and Ianto Jones to leave before the bomb went off, blowing Jack's body apart and destroying the Hub. (TV: )
During the Gallipoli campaign, Jack was shot dead by Ata, then again by Ottoman forces when they recovered Ata. (AUDIO: )
In an alternate timeline created by John Hart, he used distilled rift energy with technology from the Torchwood Institute to cut Jack off from the Time Vortex, nullifying his immortality and transferring it to himself. Jack, however, remained a fixed point in time and, after 130 years, died of old age which resulted in John's universe collapsing in on itself. (AUDIO: )
== Behind the scenes ==
* As of 2021, Resurrection of the Daleks has the highest on-screen body count of any televised Doctor Who story, with 76 deaths.
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