Spike lives. No question about it. If this were a Chinese anime, no question he’d be dead — they’d have killed off every major character in the last ten minutes of the show. But a Japanese director is at least 50/50 likely to sew him back up. After all, it was only a flesh wound.
Besides, the director was dropping hints last year about reviving the series. Absolutely necessary since my youngest daughter has adopted the nickname “Radical Ed.”