User blog comment:NotCrazyZora/Bloody Mary's status/@comment-24099677-20140709230338/@comment-5660038-20140715010923

Actually, changing it to dead would be speculating. Unknown means we don't know for sure, but it's possible. Saying "I don't know that she's dead, but I don't know that she's alive either." is not speculating. Saying "Even though the possibility that she's alive is there, I still can say with 100% certainty that she's dead, because I said so." THAT. is speculation.