Man, I love this game. I'm going to start my hard difficulty level playthrough, soon. The amazing thing was that there was stuff that happend during my playthrough that I thought HAD TO HAPPEN. Then, months later, I find out that certain things didn't have to happen that way and certain people didn't have to die. Amazing how Bioware pulled that off.
I suspect ME3 will kick off with a large portion of your crew going their seperate ways after the suicide mission. I'm sure Grunt will be in the party (and if he managed to die, I'd bet Wrex will come back), as well as Miranda, Joker, and Jacob. The people who may have died will likely be replaced by newly hired guys. They'll probably get right down to business, too as the Reapers start doing some serious damage to life in the galaxy as we know it.
I don't think anybody is going to survive ME3, either.
