User blog comment:Maslab/On the subject of Noble Six/@comment-138261-20130708061632/@comment-1044705-20130708192913

Frankly, that's a very generalizing way of looking at things. To use Sniper's Vinh character as an example, some Spartans are legitimately gone MIA without another mention or appearance after that point. It should be fine, therefore, for an author to decide how said character survives, or if the author chooses, how said character dies (see Sniper's Isaac, for instance). However, in cases where the cause and reason of death is so blatantly obvious for a character such as Noble Six, it would definitely be NCF to make it otherwise. Not to mention, as Maslab stated, Bungie confirmed themselves that Six is dead. There is no "may" about it.