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fwiw, my gut feeling is that if he were confirmed to have literally ceased-to-be died, there's a good chance you'd have heard about it for sure by now. in my experience, when somebody of some significance in an internet community dies, the news does tend to make it back to that community and one tends to see grief and condolences expressed on the site they were most associated with

granted, it's certainly not a surefire thing and the fragmentation experienced by the fe fandom until fairly recently probably reduces the chance of that happening or being successfully transmitted into being commonish knowledge, but still, i've seen enough cases like this on both forums and wikis to be fairly confident in this