In the first third of the movie Bond girls seem to have had 90+% fatality.
(or did I get that wrong, can’t remember/haven’t seen them all)
What a recipe for a series.
In Thunderball, one of the “girls” gets shot (by a bullet aimed at him) while they’re on the dance floor.
Bond (Connery) dances her over to a seat, sits her down, and says to the couple at the table, “Don’t mind my friend here. She’s just dead.”