

When tail beasts (bijū) are extracted from their Jinchuuriki, the Jinchuuriki
dies.

All seven Jinchuuriki died after the Akatsuki extracted the bijū from them.
Gaara was resurrected by Chiyo using the ["One's own life reincarnation"
jutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/One%27s_Own_Life_Reincarnation).

So why do Jinchuuriki die when bijū are extracted?  
What are the reasons behind the death of Jinchuuriki after the extraction of
bijū?


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Why do Jinchuuriki die when their biju are extracted?


The reason are not been clear, probably it never will be, now that Naruto is
scheduled to end this year.

The Sage of Six Paths told himself that no matter what, if a Tailed Beast is
extracted from someone, **they die**.

I believe that's canon material and a fact in Narutoverse. I guess we just
have to make our peace with it.

On a personal note, in my opinion, when someone becomes a **Jinchuuriki** ,
the huge chakra of the Tailed Beast enters into the ninja's body and gets
mixed up with that of the ninja's.  
Imagine the body of ninja is water, and the ninja's chakra is a pinch of sugar
dissolved in the water. The process of turning into a Jinchuuriki would be
like adding salt (= Tailed Beast's chakra) to the mixture. Now to extract the
Tailed Beast's chakra, it's impossible to do so without drying up the ninja
first, i.e. **Ninja has to die.**


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Maybe the process of extracting the huge amount of chakra from a Jinchuuriki
is too taxing on the body. It seems to me that their chakra don't mix up
because Naruto doesn't always use Kurama's chakra.


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The Jinchuuriki doesn't necessarily die when their Biju are extracted.

The Jinchuruuki can survive the extraction of Biju in the following cases:

>   * The Jinchuuriki has enough life force (like the Uzumaki clan - being Ten
> Tails Jinchuuriki gives enough life force for the host)
>   * The Jinchuuriki receives immediate medical attention
>   * [Safe Biju extracting
> method](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beast_Removal_Technique) is used
>

The main reason for the death of a Jinchuuriki is due to the weakened state of
the host body, and the host's strong dependence on the Biju chakra for its
survival. Such cases are:

>   * Moving the Biju to the next host when current host is about to die -
> they are weakened already
>   * When the Biju is forcibly extracted by others. In such case, the
> Jinchuuriki will be forced (beaten to near death by Akatsuki members) for
> the extraction process
>

We haven't seen any other case where the extraction of a Tailed Beast caused
death to their host, yet.


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After some searches, discussion on forums and answers posted here, I came up
with the following conclusion, which is based on the content of the manga up
to chapter 692 and contains spoiler.

Let's start with the term **Jinchūriki**. The term Jinchūriki (人柱力
(Hitobashira-ryoku); Literally meaning "Power of Human Sacrifice") implies
that human is sacrificed when **Biju** is implanted or sealed inside. In other
words, when a human become Jinchūriki, their body is sacrificed for Biju.

Biju, also known as **Chakra Monsters** , is a living form of chakra. That
huge amount of chakra is sealed, but can be used with high level of training
like how **Killer B (Hachibi)** does. Biju acts as a part of the body or the
body's chakra and when all chakra is lost the person die, so healing and
restoring chakra should keep Jinchūriki alive. However, the case is different
when Biju is extracted: the essential part to live, **the life force** , is
also lost. To add to the argument, this
[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14025/why-is-madara-
supposedly-dead) describes that life force is essential to be alive and why
Juubi's Jinchūriki does not die after extraction of Biju. Resurrection of
**Gaara** after extraction of **Shukaku** by **Chiyo** using the ["One's own
life
reincarnation"](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/One%27s_Own_Life_Reincarnation)
jutsu shows that the life force is essential to keep alive.

> Even **Hagoromo** said," Madara was once a Jinchūriki. So now that he no
> longer has a Biju in him, there is no saving
> him".![691-11](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hANIK.png)

* * *

Death of Jinchūriki after extraction of Biju is inevitable, unless there is
way to provide life force as mentioned above or other ways. If there was any
safe Biju extraction method, then why elite shinobi from different village,
**Uzumaki** clan, **Third Hokage** who knew almost all jutsu of **Konoha** ,
did not know such type of jutsu or tried to invent it? There are lots of
forbidden Jutsu which are powerful and extraordinary. How can be this possible
that no one was able invent it? **Uzumaki clan** also die, but they resist and
can live longer than other Jinchūriki .

> **Naruto** was at the stage of death and was saved after putting **Kyuubi**.
> Otherwise, death of Naruto was
> inevitable.![662-14](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6TqCq.png)


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It's simple really. The ninja shares its body and chakra with the beast, so
when it's all pulled out, it depletes both parties' chakra. And you know what
happens when your chakra goes down to zero, right? (Killer Bee says this)


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There are a couple explanations. 1) Jinchurikki are sacrifices to contain (and
control) Bijuu. It seems they latch themselves on to the Jinchurikki's life
force. We have to understand that there were no Bijuu Beasts to begin with.
They were Juubi's chakra. Hogoromo made them into nine different entities, by
expending his own life force.

It's entirely possible that the Bijuu substitutes as the life force of the
Jinchurikki once they are sealed inside someone. The resiliant Uzumaki or
Senju relatives can not die instantly, but they are going to die anyway.

Chakra is something that mixes with life force and as explained in Naruto, if
you exhaust your chakra, you die. Bijuu extraction methods does not
differentiate between a Bijuu's chakra and a persons own. It depletes all of
it in one go. And since Bijuu is basically chakra, the extraction casuses
fatality to the host.

Bee was able to stay alive after extraction via connecting to a bit of Gyuki's
tail containing its chakra. Naruto got Kurama's chakra else he also would've
died.


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think of a human body as a chakra container. when you put a biju inside the
body needs to slowly grow to store all of that massive amount of chakra. if
I'm not mistaken inserting a biju can kill the host (since his body can't
adapt fast enough to the extra chakra) and that was one of the reasons minato
and kushina didn't put the entire kyubi inside naruto.

now, when the biju is removed the body also needs to adapt to the loss of
chakra.

let me put it in this way. when you were born your chakra was a glass of
water. when you fused with the biju you slowly became a balloon. it was
painful and you could have pop but you managed. now they took away 99% of what
you were. how would look the balloon? nearly completely depleted. now remember
you got a beating and are already using a sizeable amount of chakra to stay
alive and slowly heal. when you had the biju chakra that was easy but now...
depending on how hard was the beating your body won't be able to heal fast
enough and will completely deplete itself. congratulations. you died.

Uzumaki clan has an unusually large amount of chakra so the difference between
having or not having the biju chakra isn't as large as with other clans. it's
still massive but they have it easier so they survive longer. also naruto
didn't have a full kyubi so the difference was even less (still massive but
every bit counts) and he got the other half kyubi from his father. that's why
he survived even when they removed the half kurama he had.

there's an extra piece of info. when forcibly extracted you don't just remove
the biju chakra but also possibly a good amount of chakra from the host as
they are mixed and the process ensures all the biju chakra is removed. this
means the jinchuriki loses not only the biju chakra (which is probably over
99% of the total) but also a good amount of his own human chakra. if using a
more natural method of splitting the two and the consent of the biju and the
human I do believe it's possible to ensure the jinchuriki would survive
extraction but it's not an easy task since whoever would perform the removal
would want to contain the biju in some way and the biju won't agree to such a
thing unless extremely rare circumstances. I suppose naruto could pass part of
kurama to boruto to save his life but I don't bet anything on it.


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