Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-28432164-20160514001744/@comment-25122992-20160514193956

Actually, if someone refers to Hokage with his ordinal number, he's not necessarily dead/retired. For example, in Boruto movie, during the report of Team Konohamaru mission, Naruto told Boruto to call him "The Seventh" within the Hokage office. And he was surely far from stepping out from his position back then.