User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/416: Deicide 18 (The End)/@comment-1405841-20100819100321

It's all fair in the end of Gin is considered dead, if we make an exception for him...we'll have to make exceptions for some of the Espada as well (especially Harribel, whose Injuries seem to pale in comparison yet she is considered dead based on word from a character and no showing of her since then...yet no one said Grimmjow was dead nor was it implied he died, so thus he's still listed as unknown).

As for the comparison against Yammy's arm and Gin's arm, Gin had his arm ripped OFF...from what we could see, that could very well be his whole arm...which means some other bones may have been pulled with it and just would have been like pulling a plug on a pool of blood. Yammy just had a bit of his arm slashed off...not torn off, plus he's a goliath as it is so he's able to withstand a bit more. Also, if just Gin's arm was ripped off then maybe it wouldn't be SO BAD...but he got run through with a sword and slashed across the chest...that adds to it. Plus the whole flashback thing...and regrets...

Anyways, he's deceased until (and if, which I hope he will) he opens his eyes or says some words somewhere in here in the next chapter or so.