Somehow I felt that spirit hadn't died in him.
He said many times that unless a person has a goal, a new mountain to climb, his spirit will die.
As per the film script, it implies that the spirit of the man never dies.
On Earth, he saw that the human spirit had all but died - and the people hadn't even noticed!
There was nothing to be gained by staying here, mourning someone whose spirit had not died.
Now, when Kokua stood alone in the street, her spirit died.
The paper published after the German invasion of 1939 but its spirit died.
It seemed to her as if the spirit of a far-off age were dying.
But the spirit of the wonder cabinets never altogether died.
However, the spirit trapped there had never truly died and so was beyond her power to bind.