I can tell you without PMing (not a spoiler, I just watch a lot of tv) of course he's not fucking dead. They had Sookie specifically mention that vampires explode when they die, Tara's having erotic dreams (surely the link between them would end if he was dead) and doesn't have another story for the rest of the season and he's a good character. Talbot didn't say he was dead either, just that they were scraping his brains off the bed or something. He can regenerate his brains.
And also I don't want people to think I didn't appreciate the final scene, because I did.