User blog comment:Zukofan123/New Ending Ideas/@comment-5028670-20120417213301/@comment-4826433-20120508051128

Some squad members can sacrifice themselves(maybe randomly chosen), but the whole team wiped away, that sounds a wee bit too cruel. And the LI dying, that can be a very hard thing to handle. Its not very important that Shepard survives, but the galaxy as a whole should remain intact.