User blog:KillRoy231/Season 10 - Is he really dead?

Spoilers of course and it might be too soon to say this character's name in a blog title...

The character in question, as I'm sure you all know, is Death.

We know what happened in the Season 10 finale: Dean asks Death to kill him or remove the Mark. Death refuses, saying doing so would release the Darkness into the world, and offers to transport him to another planet or dimension, also telling him he must kill Sam to prevent him from trying to find Dean and doom the world (which we know he would have done). Initially Dean accepts, but is unable to go through with it and impales Death with his own scythe. Death turns to dust, and we lose yet another fan-favorite.

I previously did a blog ranting and raving about the death of Death. But this blog addresses a completely different issue: Is Death really dead?

When Queen Chrysalis falls over a cliff and King Sombra shatters to pieces, the MLP Wiki refuses to say they are dead (well, they did at first for Sombra but changed their mind). This was before the comics, and persists after they are declared their own separate universe.

When four of the Deadly Six explode and two fall into lava, Sonic Wiki maintains that they are alive, that they teleported away and can survive lava, even though they have never displayed teleportation and Zor's final words basically confirms lava is fatal to Zeti.

Gregor Clegane clearly died from the manticore venom and is now a zombie, but Game of Thrones Wiki lists his status as "Alive" rather than the more accurate "undead".

Ogron, Anagan, and Gantlos are frozen and fall into a crevice from which they are never seen again. We saw a bird get frozen by a snake in that same dimension, fall a short distance, and shatter to pieces so there's no doubt this happened to the three wizards. Yet Winx Wiki says that Duman is the only fairy hunter to die.

This could go on forever, but all of those characters are villains that should be expected to die. Here we're talking about a fan-favorite character and a valuable ally to Sam and Dean who has helped them out five times, so it's refreshing to hear speculation of his survival. This wiki up front lists him as dead, but there is actually some pretty valid arguments that he might still be alive. So, maybe Death is still alive? I mean, sure, he crumbled to dust, but so did Crowley after Castiel "burned his bones", and it's revealed he faked his death so if Crowley can pretend to burn to death, a being as powerful as Death can pretend to crumble to dust can't he?
 * Why would Death give the one weapon that can kill him to Dean and tell him to kill his brother with it, instead of killing Sam himself? He must have at least suspected Dean would decide against killing Sam, after he wouldn't let him sacrifice himself to close the gates of hell (where, by the way, Ellie will eventually go).
 * On that note, we've seen Death's Scythe that Alastair used to kill a reaper, and Dean tried to kill him with before he took it from him effortlessly. That scythe is much smaller than the stereotypical Death Scythe Dean used on Death.
 * When demons die, there is a flash of yellow light inside them. When angels die, there is a bright flash/explosion of white light. I seem to remember some light show with Eve (the Mother of All) and Abaddon (A Knight of Hell). Death is more powerful than God, so when he dies, you expect a bigger light explosion than an angel death, but instead he crumbles to dust.
 * If Death is dead, how was Rowena able to kill Oscar moments later?

I hope he's still alive, and if not, Season 11 had better be last season with Castiel and Crowley all the way through, and at least 12 episodes with Gabriel in them since he's confirmed to still be alive. And Bobby, because a.) We don't know what punishment Hannah gave him for releasing Metatron, and b.) He's appeared in all other seasons, even the ones after his death.

But of course it has to be last season. I always wondered how they could have the devil in there without making his season the last season, but now we know the Darkness is the reason Lucifer became the devil in the first place so the Darkness is the ultimate evil and if anyone can defeat it, it's Death. Even God couldn't defeat the Darkness without someone being corrupted by the Mark of Cain