User blog comment:Maslab/On the subject of Noble Six/@comment-138261-20130708061632/@comment-663564-20130708214752

There is a difference between "may" be dead and "is" dead. We don't see Kurt explicitly die, do we? Yet who is making a Kurt Survives article?

I am also willing to concede that developer commentary is not necessarily explicit canon, as it is just an "opinion."