Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26973802-20140702004108/@comment-3087504-20140902072735

I don't think so, when Nick Fury touched the Tesseract, he didn't die, in Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve threw his Shield at the Tesseract, accidentally damaging it, while Red Skull grabs the Tesseract, he saw knowledge of the Nine Realms, and then he got teleported up into one of them, hinting he could still be alive