Get It Off Your (Dead Man's) Chest: Pirates Movie Reviews

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

My justification for him dying was that the curse has a time lag. i.e., when a cursed pirate's non-moonlit flesh gets injured, it needs a bit of time to heal. So he gets shot, there's a hole in him, THEN the coins are returned, breaking the curse, bullet hole remaining. That's why he suddenly started to bleed.

I'd agree with that. Earlier in the first there is a point in time where Elizabeth uses the wheel of the ship to break the neck of an undead pirate. Takes him a few seconds to pop it back. If his neck was broken and then the curse is immediately lifted, he has no time to fix it.