User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../"There is a man I must kill!"/@comment-1940096-20140719024237/@comment-99.243.47.188-20140719044938

Oda is a writer who likes to keep his deaths "ambiguous", so he can bring his characters back from the grave when he has an idea of how to use them. His characters should be presumed dead when they're stated to be dead, until (and if) they are brought back. The amount of evidence shouldn't matter if A) The death was fatal, and B) they are stated to be deceased, explicit OR implicit. And stabbing in the heart and being blown up in a building seem fatal to me.