Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24029015-20161031022608/@comment-24674051-20161103173016

I think Queenie going after Snow and Farming is just there to raise the stakes, and therefore plot intensity. They are not going to die. The story will not be their deaths, but what they have to do in order to avoid death.

And honestly, given that we've seen people survive without their hearts (looking at both Will and Graham), the simple approach is simply to remove both of their hearts, put them somewhere safe, and have Emma seal it with blood magic. then only Emma, Snow, David, and Henry would be able to access. That would at least buy them time to figure out how to permanently stop the queen.