It's a lingering question to many, but it can only be seen as face value, otherwise every yes is no and no is yes. I take what Q said as the answer to the question, however, I don't argue one way or another, because I cannot and have not proven to myself that he died. Q isn't my authority on what is or isn't. And absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and so my conclusion is Junior is Schrödinger's Cat.