User blog comment:New Guy/Final Getsuga Tenshou and Quincy Final Form/@comment-1593269-20101018075018/@comment-44061-20101018081952

Substitute Shinigami is a position. There is no half Shinigami half human here that makes no sense as Shinigami are souls not another group capable of mating with. Someone can't be half alive and half dead. Ichigo is alive/human because he technically still possesses his human body and has not undergone soul burial. His only a Shinigami in spiritual sense and note even that he is visored. So whatever he does in this form has nothing to do with being human as that doesn't matter till he returns to his body. There is no death after the move it explicitly states what it does, takes ones powers away. Also its insisuated that the FGT is the reason his father lost his powers 20 years ago. So that also shows that one looses there powers and continue to exist. There is no death in this scenario just power loss.