Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31337598-20180202202814/@comment-9782468-20180205060735

Lorenzo.r.2nd wrote: no. he would've died anyways. he summoned the thingy, so he pays the price. and if he tried, kurama would've insta killed him What did I just say?

'''He didn't need to summon the Reaper. He could have just sealed all of Kurama back into Kushina with Eight Trigrams'''

The only reason he didn't was because he needed Konoha to still have its Tailed Beast to keep the balance between villages.

In fact, if it was physically possible to fit all of Kurama into Naruto, then Minato never would have died. But since Naruto was too small a container at the time, Minato had to cut Kurama in half. And by using the Reaper Seal, he made sure the other half of Kurama would never come back and wreak havoc.