User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-5125815-20140729010753/@comment-4616231-20140731001014

Okay, here's another analogy because people seem to be missing the point:

When a parent flushes a fish down the toilet becuase it's dead, and tell the kid some bullshit excuse as to where it went, the kid might still think it's alive, but just because they don't find it again doesn't mean it's alive. It just means they can't find it.