User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Sabo: Dead or Alive?/@comment-1908942-20110319014400/@comment-68.33.83.39-20110502004306

That scene confirmed nothing. As much as I want to believe that was Sabo, we have to consider that that was just Oda messing us. I personally am a firm believer in Sabo surviving but i can see where people are coming from. There will be doubts until he is either confirmed alive or the series ends.