Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5824377-20121205013136/@comment-29450335-20170810043337

2Sword wrote: Everyone is alive. Made In Heaven DOES NOT AFFECT LIVING ORGANISM'S. Even something as insignificant as an ant is carried over. If living things are carried over (and keep their memories as shown with the prison guards) then people that were still alive when they got transfered over to the universe would still be the same; just with memories of time going beserk. This means that people like Josuke, Joseph (probably), Trish, Mista, Polnareff etc are still out there. However if someone is killed by MiH they are replaced with a new-named souless stand-in with no memories of time accelerating. Pucci said before he was going to die that everything he worked for would be undone if he died before the point in which a new universe was created. This means that the universe would revert back to it's original state with the same history as before -Pucci. If I'm not explaining this clearly enough or just For more detail please read this reddit post. It makes the end of part 6 a lot more bearable and enjoyable

Actually, Araki at one point confirmed that Joseph was alive through the entirety of Stone Ocean. Senile, but alive nonetheless.