As of the time that this is being written, we still don't know who Negan has killed in the season premiere of The Walking Dead. (It is, however, just hours away.) Here's what we do know about it though: Negan has the group in such a position that no one is able to fight back. So, this death, as emotional as it will probably be, will not be very exciting. There have been so many deaths on The Walking Dead that got our hearts pounding and our adrenaline rushing, or at least in one case, made us laugh a little, and here's a short list of some of those. The best of deaths, if you will.

7. Sam

Okay, Sam made #1 on my list of TWD characters that no one misses, but his death was pretty powerful, too. We all knew he was doomed when he started crying for his mom as they waded into the sea of walkers, but did anyone actually see that walker coming to just take a bite of his tender child shoulder? I sure didn't. And then we watched the same thing happen to his mother. And then his brother Ron - but not before Ron could shoot Carl's out, proving to mothers everywhere that no, you shouldn't get your child a BB gun for Christmas. And after they got Carl to safety, my personal favorite scene of the series happens: the residents of Alexandria have an epic take-back of their city, fighting the walkers right into a fiery lake. It was beautiful. And we all have Sam and his gross death to thank for that chain reaction.

6. Noah

We met Noah in Grady Memorial Hospital,� where Beth was being held captive. And then Noah escaped, met up with our favorite apocalypse hero, Daryl, and went back to save Beth. When none of that worked out, he led the group back to his home in Richmond, Virginia, with the hope that it was still a fortress against zombies. It was not, and in the end, Noah joined the group and made it to Alexandria. However, out on a run, he falls victim to Nicholas's selfish ways. The heart-wrenching thing about Noah's death is that we have to see his face pressed up against the glass revolving door, begging Glenn for help, as the walkers tear into him. It was hard and gory, but it was shot so well. There's nothing else like it.

5. Beth

By the way, remember Beth? She tried to die by suicide back on the farm, when she cut her wrists open. But, we quickly found out, she didn't really want to die. She made it off the farm, to the prison, and when the prison was overrun, she ended up with Daryl. Who didn't love the scene where the two of them get drunk off the moonshine? However, happy moments don't last. Beth got kidnapped, and ended up at the hospital. She already had one failed escape attempt when Rick and the group finally showed up to rescue her. Beth tries to kill Dawn, the corrupt former cop running Grady Memorial, on her way out, and as a result, she gets her brains blown out, just seconds before she would have been reunited with her sister. As sad as it was, it was incredibly brave that she tried to kill Dawn. It showed us that Beth really had become a badass.

4. Nicolas

Who didn't hate Nicholas? I'm pretty sure there were only a few people in the pro-Nick party, and all those hands went down when he nearly killed Glenn. He was a jerk, through and through, to the group when they got to Alexandria. It was obvious that he, like so many others, felt threatened by Rick and the gang. He was only concerned about himself. This became painfully obvious when, seemingly trapped on top of a dumpster, surrounded by walkers, he decided to off himself. And take Glenn down with him. And then there was that gruesome scene of the walkers ripping someone's guts apart. And then we spent weeks wondering if those were Nicholas's guts, or Glenn's. Luckily, they belonged to good ol' Nick, and the post-apocalypse world was rid of one more asshole.

3. Bob

"You can't go back, Bob."

Bob was a recovering alcoholic that the group found out on his own. He was a pretty okay guy, and Sasha liked him, and we have him to thank for buying the group enough time to be saved from being served as dinner at Terminus. But the best part of Bob, in my opinion, was the comic relief of his death, or at least the end of his life. Bob is bitten at the food bank after the group arrives at Father Gabriel's church. But Bob manages to keep that hidden from the group. When he goes to cry about it in the woods, he is taken by a group of Terminus survivors, led by Gareth. They amputate his leg and roast it for dinner. At first, Bob is distressed. But then he reveals his secret, laughing manically the whole time. "Tainted meat!" I'm sorry, but that was funny. And those Terminus guys really deserved it.

2. Denise

Denise was the reluctant doctor at Alexandria after Rick kills the real doctor, who also happened to be an abusive alcoholic. She really came into her own after she saved Carl, even though she couldn't save his eye. It's too bad she couldn't give him her own eye, the good one at least, after she is hit by a crossbow arrow in the middle of a soliloquy about love. Denise, that quiet mouse of a woman, was finally speaking up, and right in the middle of it, an arrow comes through her eye. That'll teach you to love in the time of zombies, I guess.

1. Deanna

Okay. Deanna was a hard character to love at first, probably because she was involved in the government in old world. But after her husband, Reg, is killed, Deanna really started to understand the stakes. She let Rick take over, for the most part. When Alexandria is overrun, she is bitten in the mayhem. When everyone else has to leave, she says she isn't ready to die yet, but she will be, and so Michonne leaves her with a weapon, and viewers are left thinking Deanna will die on her own terms. However, Deanna's own terms are nothing like we expected. When the walkers reach her bedroom door, Deanna opens it, and opens fire. She goes out with a wild scream, in one of the most beautiful deaths I have ever seen on The Walking Dead.

Whoever is it that we lose to Negan will join a long list of characters that are no more, but if they're lucky, they'll have a chance to go down as one of the best deaths on The Walking Dead. And what else can those characters really hope for?