User blog comment:M2459/ME3 ending/s dont conclude story/@comment-2.123.236.56-20120520135706

Well I can understand the dying bit because normally in trilogies of any kind the main character can die, The Matrix Trilogy is a good example of this when Neo sacrificed his life to save Zion in the last film just like Shepard who sacrificed himself to save the Galaxy through what ever choice he made. Unless you go for the Destroy ending and have a high enough set of Military points (I do not know as I have not done it myself but everyone talks about it) then Shepard is still alive even though he/she should be dead since he is part synthetic so maybe there will be a Mass Effect 4 we just do not know. But the DLC they are releasing should clear this up.