Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-4080775-20151225185754/@comment-734582-20151226122752

ZackTheRaikage wrote: Personally it makes total sense to me. What he said was pointed out by Kishimoto. I got the impression that the whole "reflected" thing is a poor choice of words. Six Paths eyes are fake rinnegan in the sense that they're regular eyes, they just take over the design of the Rinnegan. They're not under Genjutsu (where the reflection eventually disappears) but under the Six Paths of Pain jutsu which apparently creates a permanent effect.

The concept of a Path "dying" is questionable since they're essentially puppets. The jutsu that binds them can somehow be broken, which stops them, but otherwise the concept of death simply does not apply, so the rinnegan reflection not disappearing on death makes little sense.