Is Hidan Dead?

Shikamaru rekt Hidan, but technically he's immortal. There's 2 possibilities:

• After becoming immortal Hidan performed his ritual on people by choice, is 100% immortal no matter what, and has to spend the rest of eternity buried in a hole.

or

• Hidan had to perform rituals every so often or eventually loses his immortality.

What do you guys think?

Spoilers

From what I understand, he's just living in a hole under rubble for all eternity.

Dude is going to be bored as hell for a very long time.

Best case scenario? He takes a couple decades to eat the rubble around him and put himself back together.

I'm pretty sure he is still alive.

I assumed if he didn't perform the ritual, he'd eventually die.

I believe he is alive. I imagine Shikamaru checks up on that spot every once in a while

Hidan & Jack are treated so similarly they could be brothers. My first thought upon seeing that panel.

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From what I've heard, Kishi said that Hidan would die in about two years after being buried, but I've never seen the source for this so I could be wrong.

If he is alive he probably wishes he wasn't. His flesh can still be damaged and he didn't seem to have any special durability or defenses from injury. Which means he's probably being eaten alive by worms and subterranean insects. Slowly consumed from the inside out by thousands of tiny organisms even as his flesh melts away by the invisible bacteria feeding off his living corpse.

Do you think he survived being ingested? Is he sentient worm poop now? His consciousness spread out across the forest earth in microscopic bits too small and damaged to have any kind of sensory input. No mind. No body. Nothing.

If he somehow isn't dead he is indistinguishable from it.

IIRC Kishi said Hidan would die eventually.

I actuallt fell sorry for hidan but he should be alive.

@kidchipotle said:

@metaljimmor: essentially this happened to him

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlWegS2sS0