User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Sabo: Dead or Alive?/@comment-1595565-20110701031137

Maybe he is dead and everyone here is in denial and clinging to the smallest shred of false hope, ignoring the obvious significance and pattern of Sabo's death to the overall Straw Hat theme. He almost needs to be dead for the story to progress. Imagine, if you will, that another Straw Hat's death from the past suddenly came back. How would you feel? Weird, yeah. With their deaths, everything falls into place. If they came back (Sabo, Tom, Olvia, Kuina, doesn't matter), that would be covering an open grave. The meaning behind the death would become hollow. Sabo needs to be dead. Even if he is alive, by some slim, nanoscopic margine, I hope to god he doesn't show up in the story for the same reason.