User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 514: Dragon Seed, Review/@comment-24784846-20161213010900/@comment-7418318-20161215065146

It isn't and I never claimed it to be. Here's my sentence on that matter again: they were in a "worse than death" state either way

Yes being eaten by Mira could be considered worth than death, but being in a body-less state for the rest of eternity without a chance to truly die or revive (or become a Ghost like Roubaul) isn't any better either. Either way it sucks to be them.

And the matter of Bloodman can be interpreted either way. It could be that he was lethally wounded, or he could just as well have thought that Gajeel would kill him, instead of just knocking him out. We'll never know, but I think the latter is the more likely one.