Does Grey's Anatomy have no choice but to kill off Dr. April Kepchner?

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It's hard to imagine a credible exit strategy for Sarah Drew's character because she shares an infant daughter with Jesse Williams' Jackson, who will still be on the show. "It would be out of character for April to leave Seattle and her daughter behind, and out of character for Jackson to let April move elsewhere in the country, taking Harriet with her," says Liz Raftery. "And, if April simply leaves Grey Sloan because she gets a job elsewhere in Seattle, the writers face the dilemma of having April be conspicuously absent from both Jackson's life and the lives of all her friends/former coworkers going forward. (Not that the show hasn't done this before.) However, the easiest solution to get rid of April's character is an alarming one: by killing her off."