Holy shit people really only listen to
what they want to hear. This is the last time I say this. Anno went crazy while making the last two episodes of EVA. And I don't mean loony tunes, I mean he was placed in an institution! They ran the last two episodes and it was the WTF heard around the world. Anno came back from his little padded den, took one look at what he had done....gave a little wtf of his own, and proceeded to make EoE to fucking EXPLAIN what was left out of the series because of his sickness.
In EoE, everyone dies. Yes they die! Everyone except Asuka and Shinji. No...no...for the love of shit no! Asuka does not die and then come back as some weird mixture of her and Rei. This is an ignorant rumor spread by people who are still waiting for Dragon Ball AF to come out.
Here...
http://animenation.net/news/askjohn_search.php
I'm fucking begging you! Read up on it a little and stop speculating. This is a little bit of what I remember reading. If you want I'll look for the rest but enough with the wild guessing already.