Why they may have killed off Brian
http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/27/brian-griffin-dead-in-family-guy-is-killing-off-a-tv-character-lazy-writing-4203914/

I saw this the other night, I thought is was just a Gag!
Was the plan to kill him off for good?
I thought they would just bring him back in the next episode or something.

The parting gag on the Y2K episode "Da Boom" comes to mind.

So Seth will now only do 534 voices on the show.

The Death of Brian has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow on that post.

My intro to Brian (and to Family Guy) came through this scene (and its subsequent follow-up).

You should submit them.

I checked. It's been sifted, but currently dead.

Can't fix it the dead one?

nope

Boo. What's the URL?

hard time finding it.. only this one
http://videosift.com/video/Family-Guy-Brian-s-Emmy-Vote-Entourage (and the Flight of the Concords version)... <shrug>