To save his life, his father (Bootstrap Bill Turner) carves out Will’s wounded heart and places it in the Dead Man’s Chest. This process resurrects Will, but not as a mortal man. He is now bound to the sea, tasked with the duty of ferrying souls who die at sea to the "other side." The Terms of His "Death"
The short answer is His fate depends on which movie you’re watching and how you define “death.”
In the fifth movie, "Dead Men Tell No Tales," Will and Elizabeth get married and have a son, Henry Turner. Will is still alive and helps his son in the quest to break the curse that has turned his father, Bootstrap Bill, into a ghost.
Will Turner (played by Orlando Bloom) undergoes one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema history. He technically dies, yet he remains a central figure in the franchise. The Moment of Death: At World’s End