Sometimes it feels like The Walking Dead kills off its characters about as often as it introduces them, sometimes even more frequently. There are few episodes, especially nowadays, where we won't see somebody eaten by walkers, murdered by marauders, or resorting to suicide. It's shocking that even years after debuting, the show can find new ways to torment its characters, and its fans, recently even delivering an episode that made it unknown whether a character survived or not, despite horrific circumstances. In fact, there are so many deaths in the show that sometimes you don't even see it happen. Whether that means the character died in questionable circumstances, the events of their death have to be explained to the audience post-mortem or the character only appears to be dead and could make a surprising return in the future, there are a number of characters in The Walking Dead who we never actually saw bite the dust.
10. Jim
Jim was a fantastic character that was sadly taken from us after walkers hit the Atlanta campsite, and the bulk of the protection was still out on a run looking for guns. He was somehow bitten on his stomach, despite holding his own in the attack and taking out the walker that bit Amy, and it was discovered by Jacqui the next morning that he was infected. The character had seen terrible things, namely his family getting torn apart by the dead, allowing him to escape. He encouraged Lori to keep Carl safe and never let him out of her sight (Im sure he rolled over in his grave in Season Two). It was genuine concern, and it went a long way. Jim opted to be left at the side of the road rather than accompany the group to the CDC, a journey that would prove almost helpless, despite informing the group with some information about the outbreak and, as revealed much later, that everybody is infected, and that unless your brain is destroyed, you will turn when you die. He probably stayed in the one spot and awaited death (and life as a walker), or perhaps he was chowed down on by another one in the woods, but we never did witness his final breath. Maybe someone came along with a cure immediately, and Ricks gang just happens to be unlucky enough to have gone the wrong way all this time? Yeah, probably not