[Brown Rat]

I don't think Starbuck is dead--or, rather, I think she may die, but I don't think she's going to stay dead. She's got a destiny, and going down into the cloud mandala and facing death is part of that destiny. I'm guessing that she's going to travel to the space between life and death that we caught glimpses of in "Rapture" and other episodes, when D'Anna had herself killed in order to see what was in that space.