User blog comment:CrackFoxJunior/A way to destroy the Reapers WITHOUT destroying EDI and the geth./@comment-5503561-20120730141434/@comment-174.112.200.161-20120730153700

If you choose Control, then the Reapers are no longer their former selves but extensions of Shepard. If you choose Control, the Reapers technically die. The beings that were the hand of countless cycles of slaughter and destruction cease to exist, in a way.