User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 877: The Candy Shop is Closed/@comment-2125188-20170831163331

I think Pedro's gone. I mean he has to die. I mean, even if he does survive, he will still be on Wholecake Island, where the threat is still there, and would likely just get killed again. Unless the Straw Hats for some reason try to recover his dead body, he would surely get killed if he survived that. There's a difference between this and the Pell situation. With Pell, the threat was gone by the time he woke up, so he could continue to live his life in peace; Pedro on the other hand would just get killed/tortured/turned into a slave or whatever cause he 'died' in the enemy's territory, and the enemy was not defeated.