User blog comment:Maslab/On the subject of Noble Six/@comment-33741372-20130713161003/@comment-33741372-20130714024256

There is no real ambiguity. There is no canon source anywhere that points to Six's survival, and all point towards their death.


 * However, it Six's death is never shown on-screen, so many different interpretations will arise on how s/he dies, that are probable.

A severely wounded SPARTAN-III who are, at best, just slightly weaker than an Elite who is, by the way, a Zealot. A professionally trained child soldier who couldn't miss a target like a SPARTAN if they wanted to.


 * At the point the Elite's swing was when the cutscene ended, if the SPARTAN had rolled out of the way as soon as that cutscene ended, he would have certainly missed and hit ground.

I should note that that comment was focused on the post-mortem. Not the actual even of death. What happens afterwards has a little ambiguity, but we can be certain beyond reasonable doubt that Six did not survive. Odds are their body wasn't even removed from the area.


 * Read your comment again, "How Six dies specifically is, frankly, inconsequential because what's important in a person's life is how they lived it, not how it was ended."

This comment and the one you just made cement the fact that you agree, it does not matter how Six dies, just as long as they are dead in the interpretation.

Why for?


 * See above comment.

People are free to interpret it however they wish. However, looking at all available canon sources and at our own rules, the only reasonable conclusion is that, on this site at this time, Six cannot survive Reach.


 * See above comment.