According to Termination of Pods, step 7 occurs simultaneously with 3. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening and have 7 occur only after the Pod's graceful termination (or expiration of the grace period)?

The reason why I need this is that my Pod's termination routine requires my-service-X.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local to resolve to the Pod's IP during the whole process, but the corresponding Endpoint gets removed as soon as I run kubectl delete on the Pod / Deployment.

Note: In case it helps making this clear, I'm running a bunch of clustered VerneMQ (Erlang) nodes which, on termination, dump their contents to other nodes on the cluster — hence the need for the nodenames to resolve correctly during the whole termination process. Only then should the corresponding Endpoints be removed.