First time through I only lost part of the crew.  The squad survived.  In fact, in all three play-throughs, everyone in my squad survived and in the last two, the crew survived.  On the character I've made for my 4th playthrough, I'm going to intentionally make some poor squadmate choices

" @Brontes_Muse said:

" For Me just "Jack" died, because I didn't have her loyalty.     Also Please answer wether or not you blew up the reaper station/ base.   "

Me too, does anyone know how you get around that? "

I got Jacob killed when he got shot in the face trying to shut a door. My initial instinct was to send Tali but I didn't wanna risk getting her killed. As I understand it now, she would've survived anyway as long as she was loyal (and she was).

Miranda just randomly died for no reason as everybody was leaving because she wasn't loyal. Dont really care though, what a bitch.

I lost Jacob, I was gonna send Tali down the tubes but there was no way I was gonna risk her getting killed...so seeing as Jacob wanted to do it, I let him do it! I would have cried if Tali died...

Why does everybody love Tali?

Garrus, Jack, and half my crew. I'm going to try and keep them alive during my second playthrough. 

" Tali. I did not like her, so I just kept going. "

No one died in any of my runs.
 
And for the second question, I exploded the hell out of the station each time so far.

None but i had already been told by a friend to make sure i used Mordin as the escort for the survivors. If i hadnt done that he would probs have died. 

Hmm. Thane, Jack and a third died on the ship cause i didnt upgrade. Jacob died in the vents. tali died. thats it

@ Brontes_Muse: Spoilers dude.

" @ Brontes_Muse: Spoilers dude. "

I didn't have Jack's loyalty and I had her in my party fighting the last boss and she died. I reloaded and didn't bring her to the final fight and she survived.

I lost Zaeed in the second fire team decision. He comes through the door injured and dies. Im like "meh". He was funny and an interesting character, but I didnt use him all that much. Canon wise, I rationalise it as he was an old war veteran with alot of demons, he hints at "Ive done some bad shit" , he wouldnt have minded dying on the battlefield for all of humanity.
 
And Jack? I didnt have her loyalty. I originally lost Mirandas, then when I realised what Bioware were doing, I instantly reloaded and lost Jacks. Because it annoyed me that you cant pacify them both because of a stupid meter, so if I had to lose any1, it would be that eyesore, earache of a character, Jack. Didnt mind the character was in there, but I would prefer sweet tits in Mass Effect 3. She was really haunted by her childhood and seemed to be searching for some peace, so I rationalise, that maybe this is it.
 
Saved the entire crew otherwise.
 
Decisions I made were: 
  Upgraded ship fully

 Tali as tech  - Best tech
Garrus as Leader  - He lead that elite squad
 
Thane as escort - "Can adapt to almost any situation"
 
Zaeed as second leader - War Vet
Samara as biotic - "Incredible" Biotics
 
Then I took Samara and Garrus as my final 2 into the final battle. I wanted to make sure that if either of my fav characters lives were in the balance, I had direct control of them.
 
I also like Legion. Hes a really interesting character. It was a toss up between the 3 for the final battle. 

My entire squad survived, but I lost everyone on the crew except Dr. Chakwas. 
 

Messed up on Thanes loyalty quest so he died right at the end, and yeah i blew up the station.

Tali died and my brother and I bursted out laughing when she got head-shotted.  Then I was sad when Zaeed died...  =/

Legion and zieed ....however the fuck you spell it haha

Nobody died with me but I spared the base. I am currently playing through it again and will certainly blow it up this time around.

Jack cause I love Miranda :D

Nobody, not even the crew so far as I know (more than just Chakwas was there), I went through the relay like 45 minutes after  having the ability.
 
I chose legion to go through the ducts, garrus to lead the attack squads both times, Jacob took the survivors back, and samara is really the only choice for biotics.
 
I took my usual pair of Tali and Miranda with me through everything.
 
Oh, and I blew that mother fucker up. TAKE THAT, MARTIN SHEEN!

Legion, Thane, and Miranda died in my first playthrough. No one died in my second.

I don't kncan't quite finher how anyone would die during my ending, I had all the loyalty and upgrades. But for some reason during the shielding part, Samara died. I was confused. But then I got word that the entire Normandy crew died on their way back to the Normandy, because I neglected to give them an escourt out. lol. I think the two occurrences might be linked. Other than that, I have no other explanation. I'm interested to see how ME3 will start off with a whole new crew and Samara missing from the universe.
 
Going to finish my other ME1 save from last year and import it and start a new ME2 playthrough, if for anything, the ending alone..

Just 1, Mordin.
 
Second playthrough I tryed to get as many of them killed as posssible.

Totally forgot to upgrade the ship, lost Jack's loyalty to keep Miranda's and failed Thane's mission and didn't retry it (I got turned around. -_-) 
 
Ended up losing Jack, Thane, Zaeed and Garrus. Destroyed the base. Suck it, Cerberus. 
 
I think Samara's gone too. Yea...

I had Jack die due to a slip of the finger when selecting a character to perform an action... I cheated and reloaded, then had everyone survive.

" @Alphiehyr: In almost all the pre-release hype they established that this was a suicide mission, and not all your crew will  becoming back alive.  The doctors said that durring  E3.  And even in the pre-release Bioware Mass Effect interview.  I also waited 2 weeks after release to launch this poll.  And intentionally didn't leave "Everyone died including shepard"  as an option.  I really am sorry that I ruined it for you, but maybe you shouldn't be cruising around the mass effect forums if you haven't beat the game.    Other Forum Posted Titles. "How to survive the suicide mission." "Jack died at the end, What did i do wrong?" "Who Died in your suicide mission?" "

At first I didn't upgrade my ship at all and by the end of the day I lost 8 guys. I then reloaded an older save, bought all the ship upgrades, tried again and I didn't lose a man.

" @Alphiehyr: If you don't appreciate the community take yourself out of it.  No reason to come into a thread about the end of a game two weeks after release and bark about spoilers.  It was up to you to stay off of gaming message boards if you wanted to preserve the experience.  Hilariously, this is exactly what I did, and yet I still had the ending ruined, because I was stupid enough to try to figure out which achievements I was missing prior to beating the game.  The developers are at fault here, not gamers at large. "

No one died at all.  It was freaking great.  I also blew that reaper ship to fucking hell(which is worse than regular hell).

" @Alphiehyr: If you don't appreciate the community take yourself out of it.  No reason to come into a thread about the end of a game two weeks after release and bark about spoilers.  It was up to you to stay off of gaming message boards if you wanted to preserve the experience.  Hilariously, this is exactly what I did, and yet I still had the ending ruined, because I was stupid enough to try to figure out which achievements I was missing prior to beating the game.  The developers are at fault here, not gamers at large. "

I lost Mordin :(  I think because I sent someone back with the rest of the crew. I sent Zaeed. Screw that guy.

Just Tali...I was genuinely distraught...for a full 5 minutes.  I have subsequently gone through again and everyone survived. I'm tempted, on my next playthrough, to intentionally botch the suicide mission completely. No ship upgrades, no loyalty etc. Just to see how it plays out.

Noone died and I blew up the Reaper in my first playthrough. My Insanity playthrough Legion died, but he wasn't loyal. On that one I didn't blow it up.

I lost Kelly and about half the crew, but that wasn't an option. No, I didn't lose any squad members. All the choices just seemed right to me, everybody was loyal, and nothing weird like Mordin randomly dying happened in my first run.

Only Kelly and Miranda died. I never got enough Paragon to make nice with Miranda after she fought with Jack.

None, though Thane wasn't loyal to me on my first playthrough.

one died on my first time through. it was tali who died after having a large pillar fall on top of her after defeating the reaper larvae. i kept the base.

none, i was surprised to be honest

my first try grunt jack and mordin died. and my second just jack died.

No party members died. 
A couple of crew members did though.

I didnt even know that anyone could die until after I beat the game haha.

I lost Tali, as she handled the vent-crawling. Almost lost Garrus, but luckily he hung in there. I kept the station for Cerberus use.