User blog comment:Hihowru/Does Lelouch really die in the end?/@comment-61.4.77.127-20131202152304

Lelouch is dead.

1) This 'project' Lelouch and Suzaku planned is called Zero Requiem. Requiem means 'mass of the repose of the soul of the dead' in which repose means 'rest'. Which can be decuded that it means 'a mass honoring the death'. The word 'Zero' has two meanings in this case, it can either mean 'Zero' as in Lelouch or 'Zero' as in 'None'. In this case, both applies. The first 'Zero' can be reasoned as the death of Lelouch (Zero) while the second can be known as 'No Death', which means no one dies. However, Lelouch had said that "The only people who should kill are those prepared to die themselves" in the previous scene. This can lead to Lelouch dying is a fated thing as he had killed many in the past. That means Lelouch is already a dead man before he was killed offically.

2) Before Lelouch was killed, a scene was shown as to C.C in a church, infront of the altar. There, she said "Lelouch. The price of the Geass you are going to cast on them is...!" the ellipsis can also be assumed as death, since the price of the geass Lelouch wanted to cast on the people was future, the price should be big as well, hence, Lelouch's life.

3) Lelouch is not a coward. He will not escape from death, but he will accept death after he had killed so many before.

4)C.C at the last scene was talking to the origami. The origami crane was used in several scenes, as first appeared to be made by Nunally. Origami cranes in Japan are believed to carry souls to paradise, hence, Lelouch's soul is in heaven.