User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 465: 400 Years, Review and Commentary/@comment-5840892-20151207151914/@comment-4829046-20151207154601

@Tristan Your expectations were too high I guess. And I don't see why you should let it bother you so much. Killing Natsu would be against the point of FT. It really depends on which theme is more prominent: A) dead people should never be revived or B) revived people deserve a chance to live life freely. The former is unlikely as heck since Natsu isn't going to die. The latter on the other hand, would be quite effectively conveyed at the moment Zeref's contradictory curse is lifted as it would remind him that the very reason he got into this business of carnage was because he wanted to allow Natsu to live a long and happy life.

Heck, we expected a MC death in Naruto, which is well, Naruto, and didn't get it. Even Bleach seems to have forgotten about permanent Deaths for prominent shinigami since Mayuri just recently showed that he only needs the brain in order to revive someone(implied since he wanted that particular version of Nemu instead of a new one). It wouldn't surprise me if they even revive Gin at this point.