How to write an unknown status
TheOneYouDenied
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I want to write a supposed death for a long time character in my story. He's always been shown to have the odds in his favor so I wanted to change things up by conveying a change of hopelessness while implying there is a small possibility he survived. I'm still not entirely sure where to go with this and any help would be greatly appreciated 
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Explosions. Those are the way to go. They walk into a building that later explodes. Or maybe it gets set on fire and he goes in and tries to save someone but gets trapped in a safe spot with that person.
Or do have some antagonist take him away to another room where we hear a gunshot, but never see his body.
It depends on who he is & in what situation the characters are in the story right now. It needs to fit his character, not look forced. Just kill him off, without saying or describing his death directly.
Have him get trapped in an alleyway/fall down into a dark room full of Walkers.
Blind plz.
Crowbars are the way to go, Saltlicks are confirmed kills.
Leave them on the side of the road after killing someone in your group.
O U!!
He turns back, smiles, winks, and then walks into the arctic wasteland naked.
Seriously, all you need is any situation where there's a mass tragedy where everyone is expected to have died, with no body found, but no body expected to be found. (Everything's incinerated, or it's in the middle of the ocean, or they're adrift in space, whatever fits the story.) Or there's a body that might be him, but it's so mangled as to be unidentifiable, with no chance of checking DNA. (The story occurs in the past before DNA checks, or there's no reference sample.)