Do NPC crew still die for good if your ship is destroyed?

[Ydiss]

Update for anybody coming here in 2020, crew no longer dies if you have the money for rebuy.

January Update

The January Update is a standalone update for Elite Dangerous that was released on January 14, 2020.[1][2] After the September Update, it was the third of a series of updates released throughout 2019 and 2020 designed to provide quality of life improvements and a more welcoming beginning...

elite-dangerous.fandom.com

Thanks! Can you find all the other threads like this and correct them too?

 

[rangedsp]

Thanks! Can you find all the other threads like this and correct them too?

Well, I found this post when I tried to find out whether I lose my beloved 10% pilot, got really confused because of conflicting information.

Eventually found out about the update, and given this is the top result on google, doing an update here should be enough ¯\(ツ)/¯