Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-413929-20141126205136/@comment-6175354-20141204145655

DarKingdomHearts wrote: Seeing as he is possibly recurring he probably isn't dead. Unless he appear in ~3 episodes and on the in the past. Regina's father was a flashback-only recurring characer, as she killed him to enact the Dark Curse. Snow White's parents were also flashback-only recurring characters.

I always assumed that Aurora's parents were dead, from the way she talked about her loved ones in Season 2. King Stefan can easily just appear in several flashbacks.