User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 368: The Third Seal, Review and Commentary/@comment-82.20.156.238-20140128065458/@comment-82.20.156.238-20140129073723

If Jellal did die, and he was indeed the Third Seal of Face, causing it to activate in the process, wouldn't that nullify the effects of the Ether Sphere Lacrima bomb that Sayla is planning to use to annihilate the Fairy Tail guild, rendering it useless, removing any threat and reducing any sense of danger; effectively counteracting their own plans.