User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../759 - So That's a Thing.../@comment-24724196-20140905000548/@comment-5115277-20140905084625

More accurately, based on the information available you have formed the opinion that she is more likely to be dead.

Based on that same information I have formed the opinion that she is more likely to be alive (probably 60-70% at this stage).

For my opinion to be changed I would need one or more of the following:
 * Extinguished Vivre Card
 * Reincarnated Yuki Yuki no Mi
 * Statement from narrator that either is dead

In certain situations, it makes no sense to mark a character as dead when they have received a seemingly fatal blow and are proclaimed to be dead. Zoro, Sanji and Brook were not marked as dead despite the Yeti Cool Brothers' statement that they had successfully completed the assassination (You would think pro hitmen would know what they're doing when it comes to confirming the target's death).

The advantage of neutral language (i.e. just leaving it as "Monet was stabbed in the heart") is that it allows the reader to draw their own conclusions, rather than make it seem like we have more information that the reader is not aware of.