User blog comment:FairyTailFan/Juvia not as strong/@comment-10425110-20130607112214/@comment-7418318-20130607121910

Oh well... in that case...

There is no way that big hole in his chest missed his heart and even if it did, he was riddled with more holes right afterwards and while we don't get a full view of it, that last high-contrast picture (below the "Heh...?") is almost asuredly a headshot. You even see the blood fountaining away from the back of his head. So I'm very sure he was dead before he even hit the ground.

But between ghostly manifestations like Robaul and Mavis and most important of all !!Time Travel!! I'm sure he's going to stay in, or return to, the story in some form of another.