What happens if you write in the death note, gets shot to death?


Do the Death Note rules permit the user to state "death by gunfire" as a cause
of death?




[How to use VI: Point
1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_VI)

> The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically
> possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by
> that human.

If the condition can not be met because it's not possible, just as Light's
Experiments found and in [How to use LV: Point
2](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LV),
they would just die from a heart attack

death by gunfire is quite open to interpretation, with Kiichiro Osoreda Light
could have had him "die by gunfire" which could have had him killed by Raye
Penber after emptying his gun or get hit by a bullet bouncing around after he
shoots through Ryuk

this is about as ambiguous as "death by suicide" used by Light to kill Naomi
Misora so even if the cause is ambiguous if it's achievable it'll happen, in
Naomi's case we see a artistic rendition of her going to a noose however Light
had wrote down that her body is never found so i very much doubt she's hanged
herself so the artistic rendition is just to show she's _marching off to her
death_

As stated in [How to Use I: Point
3](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_I) and
[How to Use III: Point
1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_III) if
you write a person's name you have 40 seconds to either write the cause of
death or the time of death after their name is write, after that as stated in
Point 6 of How to Use I you then have 6 minutes and 40 seconds to details of
the death however just saying _death by gunfire_ or _dies from gunfire_ may
not be enough unless it's possible or reasonably for the target to be in a
situation with a gun present, within the allotted time, in which case we can
assume is within 6 minutes and 40 second, it will have a higher success rate
in war zones or areas of high gun crime as "gunfire" could be from stray
bullets.

in the situation where you specify the time of death first you probably have
more success depending on how long the person has left to live, if you write
down they die at 6:00 PM and you wrote that at 5:58 PM then wrote "death by
gunfire" then in that 2 minutes the person has to be in the situation to die
like that.

For the best results, As we see with Light's Execution of the FBI, the
greatest rate of success would come from detailing everything before writing
the person's name, this way you have all the time you need to detail how
anyone could possibly be in a situation where "Death by gunfire" is the result
of their death




[How to use VI: Point
1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_VI)

> The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically
> possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by
> that human.

If the condition can not be met because it's not possible, just as Light's
Experiments found and in [How to use LV: Point
2](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LV),
they would just die from a heart attack

death by gunfire is quite open to interpretation, with Kiichiro Osoreda Light
could have had him "die by gunfire" which could have had him killed by Raye
Penber after emptying his gun or get hit by a bullet bouncing around after he
shoots through Ryuk

this is about as ambiguous as "death by suicide" used by Light to kill Naomi
Misora so even if the cause is ambiguous if it's achievable it'll happen, in
Naomi's case we see a artistic rendition of her going to a noose however Light
had wrote down that her body is never found so i very much doubt she's hanged
herself so the artistic rendition is just to show she's _marching off to her
death_

As stated in [How to Use I: Point
3](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_I) and
[How to Use III: Point
1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_III) if
you write a person's name you have 40 seconds to either write the cause of
death or the time of death after their name is write, after that as stated in
Point 6 of How to Use I you then have 6 minutes and 40 seconds to details of
the death however just saying _death by gunfire_ or _dies from gunfire_ may
not be enough unless it's possible or reasonably for the target to be in a
situation with a gun present, within the allotted time, in which case we can
assume is within 6 minutes and 40 second, it will have a higher success rate
in war zones or areas of high gun crime as "gunfire" could be from stray
bullets.

in the situation where you specify the time of death first you probably have
more success depending on how long the person has left to live, if you write
down they die at 6:00 PM and you wrote that at 5:58 PM then wrote "death by
gunfire" then in that 2 minutes the person has to be in the situation to die
like that.

For the best results, As we see with Light's Execution of the FBI, the
greatest rate of success would come from detailing everything before writing
the person's name, this way you have all the time you need to detail how
anyone could possibly be in a situation where "Death by gunfire" is the result
of their death

