Anyone posted this?
Because
damn.
Long video, but worth the watch, I'd say.
Is Link Dead in Majora's Mask?
No. Boy, that was easy!
Wow this video is stupid. Where to begin?
I guess with the Kubler-Ross model itself. It was created as an observation of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross as she worked with terminally ill people to describe how people react to their impending death and/or other impending terrible fates. Calling them "stages" was dumb because even she didn't think there was any order to them, that everyone experienced the same emotions, or that these were the only emotions people felt when dealing with these situations. People are unique and reactions vary.
This theory is extremely laden with confirmation bias. They point out elements of the story and describe it to fit one of the stages of the Kubler-Ross model while ignoring that examples that fit multiple stages are in every area of the world. They assume that this has something to do with Link being dead, ignoring that everyone is feeling grief because there is a fuckton of reasons to feel that way in this world; got a moon falling, people getting their loved ones taken away from them, people dying everywhere. Clock Town does have people in denial. It also has people bargaining, depressed, and accepting. A lot of people in Clock Town aren't in denial. They see the moon falling. That's why there is a town meeting about it.
Then you have the video publishers doing this logic leap:
Termina has scary moon, but Hyrule doesn't have scary moon, therefor Termina must not be real and is Link's death hallucination! Wait guys, there are lots of other ways a place can not exist in the same plane of reality as another place without it being a death hallucination. We're talking about a magical world that features alternate universes in almost every fucking game!
Hero's Shade is the ghost of Hero of Time, therefor theory confirmed! Hero's Shade is an adult... that kinda... you know... does the opposite of confirm this theory.
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" Terrible fate isn't specific. Being turned into a deku scrub and dying are both terrible fates. Describing one as a terrible fate does not mean the other cannot be described the exact same way.