Just like in every anime I ever saw (apart from Souleater) the only reason they keep around secondary charectors is for marketing, so the death of Konno Yukki does not surprise me, but nevertheless I am still depressed about it. I got attached to Yukki then they ripped my heart out, but that keeps these shows interesting. I mean would you even watch anime if there wasn't the uncertainty of whether a character you like will survive or not? So however tragic Yukki's death might have been (and it was very) we must move on eventually, otherwise you'll never be able to sleep again.
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They could also give her a sappy comeback (and I wish they will). Remember, she was using a device that came straight from Kayaba, which very well means it could have been rigged to "save" the person onto the internet when they are about to die. She might pop up one day, in some of the game worlds, just like Kayaba did at the end of ALO.
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It didn't come "straight" from Kayaba. It was based on the designs of Kayaba's machine, but it is highly likely that the original designs were modified, seeing as the Medicuboid Yuuki was testing at the time of her death was not the first version of the machine.
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I may have exagerated there, I know it was not the original design. But while it is possible they removed the feature, nothing implies they did, they may have missed it. So it is still very well possible Yuuki is somewhere out there.
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Even if it wasn't removed, it's not something that activates on its own. Kayaba did not appear on the Net randomly, he performed a high-density scan of his brain, after logging out, to do it (which also led to the death of his body). I believe the doctors would have noticed if the machine did something like that on its own. And Kayaba wasn't on deathbed when he performed the scan, so there's no reason to believe that the machine is programmed to do anything special when its user dies. So, unless Cardinal decided to make more ghosts, it's highly unlikely to see Yuuki being brought back to life.
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They did not specify if he did the scan after loging out or if the device did it on it's own accord. At least I don't recall anyone saying anything other than him being found dead. I assumed Kayaba used the device to play SAO and it was set to do the scan automatically, if he was about to die IRL or if he was defeated in the game (originally planned for 100th level) within the game.
As for the doctors, who is to say they tested it on patient that was about to die. Does not seem likely. Yuuki might have been the first to die within Medicuboid. We don't have enough information to confirm my theory, but we also don't have enough information to disprove it.
There are some other scenarios, which don't rely on the theory of automatized upload, however they seem a bit more unlikely...
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As far as I remember, it was said in volume 4 that his NerveGear did not trap him in the "bonds of death". And it seems that the device that he was using to log in was referred to as a NerveGear, while the device he used for the scan was referred to as a "modified FullDive machine".
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