Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-4141313-20180311032345

73.Anon.52 wrote: "Not everytime when a Villain dies do we see their literal death. Look at Palpatine from Star Wars. We didn't see him "die", we saw him thrown off a ledge. But he was confirmed dead." Actually, Palpatine lived through that in the old EU, there was an arc where he had to be killed again. Okay, that I was unaware of. But considering Disney nixed the EU, that is non-canon meaning he did die.

Though I guess a better example would be Obi-Wan. When Vader looked like he was going to Bifuricate him, he just vanished and his cloak fell. Pretty obvious he died without seeing a body.