Getting Real Tired Of These Ambiguous Endings To Series Finales!

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By the way she took off her badge and other things and left it in the restroom I thought she was getting ready to either commit suicide by overdose or by snorting enough to give her the courage to jump off the building and try to fly.
Good show. I watched it on Netflix in a few days.

They laid it out for us in the episode. Remember Zoey saying they were out of meds?

So, no Narcan.

Jackie died.

BTW you mean "suspended disbelief." Suspending belief is refusing to believe something. Also, that's something the viewer does or doesn't do, not the writers.

"I'm a happy person, but an angry citizen." -- Lewis Black

They could not have dropped any more clues and subtle hints leading up to her demise. If you need it spelled out for you, then maybe you should stick to Sesame Street.

People that need a definite answer for everything are the reasons TV shows and movies end up getting boring and cliche.

I agree. Whenever they do that it feels like a slap in the face to the loyal viewers who followed it over several years, all the way to the end. And I imagine ambiguous endings as something that writers pat themselves on the back about for being controversial, when really it's just a lack of creativity and a lack of respect for their audience.

I hated Jackie, but loved the show because it was such a trainwreck and I really just wanted to see her get her comeuppance for so much lying and cheating and manipulating. I don't get satisfaction out of "deciding for myself" what happened to a fictional character in a fictional world that I didn't write. It's *beep*

If you know anything about healthcare at all or if you paid attention to the show at all - and I'm not trying to be mean - you know she died. If she was still alive, they wouldn't have stopped working on her. You can see it in their faces and actions. They - her friends and fellow healthcare professionals - STOP everything they're doing because there's literally nothing left to do. She OD'd, she hallucinated, she collapsed, and then she died. The last words she heard were "you're good, Jackie. You're good."

Jackie hated herself. When Grace wanted to rebel, she did so by following in Jackie's footsteps to piss Jackie off. To save Grace's life and to give her a wake up call before it was too late, she had to show her what drugs can do to a person. It's likely now that Grace will never touch another drug again because of her mother's death. And as sad as that is for Grace, she has an amazing dad, an amazing stepmom, and a nice, stable family without Jackie. This was a blessing in disguise.

Jackie was essentially a toxic drug to everyone, namely herself but also to those around her. Jackie was killing Zoey's spirit. Her happiness was literally being sucked out of her like a vacuum because of Jackie. O'Hare, though she never said it, put an entire ocean between herself and Jackie to protect her baby. Eddie was once a decent man before he met Jackie and look at what she turned him into. Point being: for anyone to lead a nice, normal life, Jackie had to be taken out of the equation. She knew this. She saw what she was doing to everyone.

Technically the writers did leave the ending up for interpretation because YOU, the viewer, have to examine YOUR position on addiction. Do you live in a fairytale world where addicts can keep at their addiction with no consequences or are you aware of the risks of addiction and what will ultimately happen to you if you keep using? If you learned anything... if you've been paying attention to the show... if you pay attention to the world around you... the ending is very, very clear. Jackie is dead.