User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Sabo: Dead or Alive?/@comment-1595565-20100802022530

He is dead. Everyone in the Strawhats has had someone they were close to in some way die in their past: Kuina, Bellemere, Banchina, the whole crew on the Orbit, Hiriluk, Olvia and Saul, Tom, and the whole Rumbar Pirate crew. Sabo is Luffy's death in the past.