User blog comment:Rafe Adler/"Rock Never Dies" Discussion/@comment-1031724-20161203090220/@comment-1975828-20161204021115

About Death, it might be a flashback, you don't know, but yeah, having him back would be nice.

As for Michael, the writers declared him mentally insane last season, and nothing is being done about Adam, so yeah, they're as good as gone.