I'm glad *you* said it first

Dead? Off the top of my head, the chocolate tube (eustace?) got fished out before he got diced up, blueberry chick (veruca?) was squeezed out and just became blue-skinned, television kid (yeah... no clue on the name) got stretched to being super tall and had a great career in basketball, and the spoiled gal (no clue on her name either) and her parents are covered in garbage. When charlie and wonka are flying off at the end (of the book), they see all four of the others exiting the grounds. Maybe in the movie it's a little more ambiguous about the garbage girl, but the others all clearly survived and were going to be taken care of.

From memory...
Augustus Gloop: chocolate glutton
Veruca Salt: bad egg / spoiled
Violet Beauregard: gum
Mike Teevee: TV
- That's pretty good from memory! I think you're missing Charlie Bucket getting sliced to death when the glass elevator crashed into a window but otherwise, spot on!
Yes, in the book it's clear they all survived. Veruca Salt (a verruca is a wart btw) is the spoilt one
- A kind of wart you get on the bottom of your foot, by any chance?
Chocolate kid was Augustus Gloop. I think the tv guy was actually named Mike Teevee (I think, idrk). Still, definite horror movie. Veruca's never going to be able to get a job lmao
- Dang, I was really off on everything but veruca. I went and looked it up... veruca's the spoiled one in the garbage chute from the squirrels, violet (really should have remembered that all the names were jokes and foreshadowing) was the blueberry.
- I feel like if your name is Gloop, being turned into candy at some point might just be fate.
I love that Mike Teevee is the one you can't remember.
Yeah, in the original movie, we got none of that. All we got was the word of an eccentric entrepreneur who kept his slave labor hidden for decades.
- Hey, he makes supernatural candy. How bad of a guy could he possibly be?

Oh they didn’t die. They just got a little modified is all.

Well, maybe the one kid who went up the chocolate chute could have drowned. Or the incinerator kid. Hard to tell really.

I learned that in the old days confectionary trade secrets was a serious business. So this gave rise to the "how do they do this" stuff and of course the author ran with it. It kinda makes sense, way back when you didn't have tv, not much entertainment, food was basic bread, potatoes, meat, you get these interesting treats and it's somewhat reasonable price and hey it's just contributing to your calorie needs anyway. I can see how candy bars were a big deal.