User blog comment:Godisme/Why me sad./@comment-44061-20110831181419/@comment-2185502-20110904220722

How does making the story more real unimaginative? Death is a concept that comes up in life and while this isn't real life, we can see from Gin that Shinigami do die and in fact the whole manga is technically based on death no matter how much you want to ignore that fact. I doubt Kubo will want to waste one of his characters. Thats just the kind of writer he is.