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Lets say you write "some dude dies of a heart attack at 3:00 PM if it is
cloudy out". Does the dude die? What if you said "some dude commits suicide by
gun at 3:00 PM if it is cloudy out", so that it is just up to him whether or
not to decide to die.

Any idea what would happen in these cases?


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Can you conditionally kill someone with the death note?


Probably not. This would imply that the death note could control people
without killing them which Light would definitely have found out and abused.

To elaborate, imagine someone writing: Do X, then if 1+1=3, die from a heart
attack. 1+1 is never equal to 3, so the death note could be used to control
anyone without harming them. That would contradict it being a notebook of
death, also it's unlikely that light wouldn't have tried and done just that.


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**If you write someone's name in the Death Note, they die.** You can write the
conditions of their death if they are possible and if they are not possible
they die the default way (heart attack). If you could do this, it would mean
you wrote his name in the Notebook and he could survive. That is impossible.

There may, however, be a way to do a conditional statement in a limited way to
get information. "Bob dies of a heart attack at 12:00 PST if he cheated on
Kimmy. He dies of a heart attack at 1:00 PST if he did not." It is not clear
if this would work or not. You clearly can do "Bob writes L's real name on the
wall and then chokes" which would have him die of a heart attack if he doesn't
know. In any of the possible cases though, Bob would die and probably is
dependent only on what Bob knows or observes.


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