User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 784 - Rick Roll the Manga/@comment-3203286-20150416122637/@comment-38.112.107.82-20150416195600

Same with Sab- oops, I mean Kuina, Bellemere, Banchina, everyone on Sanji's ship, Hiriliuk, Nico Olvia, Jaguar D. Saul, Clover, Tom, everyone on Brook's ship (including Brook!) ... and that's just people connected to the Sunny crew. In this arc alone, we have Scarlet, Donquixote Homing and Corazon; just off the top of my head.

Simply put: Roger is a flashback death, so he doesn't count. That's why nobody lists him. But despite all of these deaths from the past, very few people end up dying in the present story.

The other people who don't tend to be counted are all the other nameless victims of massacres. Both massacres on Dressrosa for instance, but also the massacre at Ohara, and Rob Lucci's massacre on a nameless island fifteen years ago.

When you stop to try and count it up, there's actually a LOT of death in the series, just no one important. Well, except Sabo.