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'Heartbreaking and painful': Fans bid emotional adieu to Rosita after captivating 'The Walking Dead' series finale

'The Walking Dead' series finale gave all the thrills, but it also featured a death that made everyone cry

‘The Walking Dead’ just aired its series finale and we knew that some of the important characters will lose their lives to make the finale more emotional. There were a lot of characters who could have died, but there was one character that was destined to have a tragic end. If you have been a fan of the series, you know that the makers won’t shy away from killing major characters in the most violent way possible. So, it didn’t come as a shock when the series decided to kill one of the most important characters in the finale, but thankfully, it was not violent.

During the series finale, we saw Rosita being the biggest casualty and losing her life after a battle with the zombies. In the final episodes of the series, we saw her doing everything to find and save her baby, Coco. She was able to rescue her daughter and take her to a safe location. However, while trying to escape a group of zombies with Eugene (Josh McDermitt) and Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), Rosita fell off of a pipe she was climbing into a mass of the undead. For a moment, everyone believed that she is dead, but she heroically emerged from the pile and fought the attackers. But, the damage was already done and she revealed a bite mark to Eugene.

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The entire gang was celebrating how they managed to save the Commonwealth and Rosita just wanted to enjoy the moment even though she knew her fate. In her final moment, we saw her lying on a hospital bed, with Eugene by her side. Her final words were, “I'm glad it was you in the end.” The character dies after saying those words and fans couldn’t stop crying after Rosita ended her journey in the ‘The Walking Dead’ universe. Meanwhile, there were others who felt relieved that Rosita got a peaceful death.

One of the fans wrote, “Literally the saddest death…cried sm.” Another fan tweeted, “But I’m so glad rosita got a peaceful death she deserved that at least Imma miss my girl but she deserves the rest.” Another fan wrote, “Shaken by rosita's death but pleased by the warm memory they gave her before letting her go and how she got to see coco one last time.”

“Rosita death was heartbreaking, but her send-off was peaceful,” wrote another fan.
“Rosita’s death was probably the most beautiful death they ever did on the show. They did it so well that I was so shocked beside the ugly crying I did the whole time that scene was on. It was important to me that Maggie, Carol, and her finally got an emotional goodbye scene,” wrote another fan. “Rosita's death was so painful. But at least she died in peace and gave us her last badass scene that trolled us all! She's the best Fighter,” tweeted another fan.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, actor Christian Serratos noted that she pitched the idea of her death to the makers of the show. While talking about the moment, the actor noted that she wanted fans to have an “emotional experience” in the finale and wanted to break the hearts of fans one last time. She added, “I just really wanted people to have that emotional experience in our finale, especially. I think a show that was about possibly losing your loved ones, you want to lose somebody at the end. I know it sounds so dark, but I feel like the show, we owed it to the fans to break their hearts one last time, if that makes sense.”