Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-45206595-20200311224438/@comment-24824859-20200312131630

Soul reaper wrote: She was branded with Madara's curse mark to ensure his plan worked out. Madara even suggests that she worked this out and made sure to die in such a way that the curse mark would be destroyed as well. She was always going to die, the only choice she really had was how to do it and she made the call that the safest course of action to protect Konoha was to die right there and then. The seal onky prevented her from taking her own life. Since she knew about the Mist's (Madara's) plans, she could have head to the Mist and have them kill her there.