Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26185073-20160324013202/@comment-14909251-20160505215954

Blackchaos27 wrote: And yet some people are still trying to edit her status from deceased to assumed-deceased or missing no matter how many times we make it clear that, until proven otherwise, we're labeling her as deceased. Technically, for the moment all we really have is that she is presumed dead. Not that I take issue with how she is described in the wiki, but there is validity to the argument that she is only presumed dead. We have not had unequivocal confirmation of her being dead as far as I know.

Arkantos95 wrote:

Or, she could, you know, be dead. And that's it. Not everyone who dies offscreen or before the events of canon needs to come back.

I wouldn't say she needs to come back, but her situation is not quite the same as others. Tukson technically died offscreen, but there is zero reason to believe he is anything but dead because it would only make sense for Mercury and Emerald to insure he was dead before they left. Summer, on the other hand, is claimed to have died on a mission and the circumstances of her alleged death have yet to be mentioned. Nothing unreasonable about suggesting her death can't be established with any certainty, because it really can't.