Officially, Kylo Ren makes it right to the end of the film, when he signs up with Rey to try to beat the resurrected Emperor Palpatine. Their Force bond is co-opted by Palpatine, who draws all the power from it to restore himself and his powers fully before tossing an unconscious Kylo Ren aside right into a pit in the ship.
Rey is compelled to defeat Palpatine on her own, using Luke as well as Leia’s lightsabers to transform his very own Force lightning on him, but the energy needed expenses her life.
Kylo Ren has the ability to climb out of the pit, discovers her body, as well as, in a reversal of an earlier scene in which she heals him, revives her with the Force– which virtually quickly costs him his own life.
In the Star Wars cosmos, redemption for the villains usually goes together with an additional point: death. In The Rise of Skywalker, that pattern holds true, with Kylo Ren ultimately finding his back to the Light, yet fulfilling his ruin soon after. So exactly how does Kylo Ren pass away? That’s really a much more difficult concern than it first could seem.
Depending upon just how you translate the duality in between Kylo Ren and also Ben Solo, however, it’s arguable that “Kylo Ren” passes away long in the past this. The concept that a fallen Jedi’s Dark identity “kills” their brave side is one that goes back to the original trilogy, when Obi-Wan Kenobi explains Vader’s loss as Anakin Skywalker being eliminated by the rise of Vader.
From that interpretation, Kylo Ren passes away earlier in the film, when he hears his mother’s voice contacting us to him via the Force as she dies as well as when he sees a memory or Force estimate of his father assuring him that Ben Solo is still active. Either way you translate it, Kylo Ren definitively dies in the movie, as does Ben Solo. In such a way, it’s a suitable end: much of his arc was locked up in attempting to imitate his grandpa, and also in the end, he did, however by accepting Anakin’s legacy, not Darth Vader’s.