User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 333: Man and Man, Dragon and Dragon, Man and Dragon, Review./@comment-5028341-20130531145014/@comment-3290324-20130531153327

Animals eating a character? Highly unlikely. :P

And I've seen plenty of characters fall from high places... never once seen any broken necks. Rules of real life don't really apply to anime and manga, and I don't think it's likely that Mashima would kill off a character in such a... lame manner.