Deceased Members of the Finch Family

The following is a list of all known deceased members of the Finch Family.

Family Member	Birth/Death Date	Cause of Death	Extra Notes
Johann Finch	???-???	Died of unknown causes.	Exact cause of death unknown; likely to have died in the womb.
Ingeborg Finch	???-???	Died of unknown causes.
Odin Finch	1880–1937	Drowned while attempting to sail his house across the ocean due to strong waves.
Molly Finch	1937–1947	Unknown.	Exact cause of death unknown; likely succumbed to swallowing a tube of fluoride toothpaste, eating poisonous holly berries or ate by 'something'.
Barbara Finch	1944–1960	Unknown.	Exact cause of death unknown; supposedly murdered by a serial killer on Halloween night.
Calvin Finch	1950–1961	Successfully went in a loop while swinging, but flew off a cliff after the swing had wrapped around the tree branch it was on.
Sven Finch	1915–1964	Crushed after a dragon-themed slide that he had been building collapsed on him.	When Edie is asked about how Sven died, she says that he was killed by a dragon.
Gregory Finch	1976–1977	Drowned in the bathtub after he had been left alone and turned the water back on.
Gus Finch	1969–1982	Was crushed by tent equipment after refusing to go indoors in a storm.
Sam Finch	1950–1983	Knocked off a cliff by a deer that was shot by Dawn.
Sanjay Kumar	1966–2002	Unknown.	Implied to have been killed in an earthquake somewhere in India on a rescue mission. Sanjay is the only known deceased Finch Family member without the last name "Finch".
Walter Finch	1952–2005	Hit by a train after walking out onto the tracks.
Lewis Finch	1988–2010	Implied to have been decapitated by a salmon de-header	Implied suicide.
Edie Finch	1917–2010	Unknown.	May have purposefully caused a fatal interaction with alcohol and medicine. She is said to never wake up again when the nursing home tried to pick her up the next day after Dawn and Edith left.
Dawn Finch	1968–2016	Died of an unknown terminal illness.
Edith Finch	1999–2017	Unknown.	Exact cause unknown; implied to have died during childbirth while giving birth to Christopher. Edith’s death is the latest known death of the Finch Family.

Trivia

• Besides Edith's son, Christopher, Milton Finch is the only Finch who is likely to still be alive by the end of the game's events, as he was confirmed in a Reddit AMA by Giant Sparrow to grow up to become the King in The Unfinished Swan.

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