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What would happen if a person wasn't able to die of a heart attack since they
use a pacemaker or are connected to medical equipment that pumps blood for
them?

This can create some sub-questions, if people couldn't die of a heart attack
such as:

  * What would happen if the cause of death specified was impossible, so the person had to die of a heart attack?
  * What would happen if no cause of death was specified?


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What happens if a person can't die of a heart attack?


[Mayo clinic](http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-
attack/basics/definition/con-20019520) defines heart attack as an obstruction
of blood flow to the heart muscle, causing the body's natural blood pump to
fail and/or die.

So a pacemaker won't save one from a heart failure once it happens, the device
avoids them from happening (the real function is more complex, gugure kokkuri-
san!).

Since a heart attack is a failure of the blood pump, it is safe to assume that
a DN could make an artificial heart to fail as well.


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### How to Use: I

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    1. The human whose name is written in this note shall die. 
    
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This is the most fundamental rule of the death note. If a person's name is in
the death note, this person will die at the specified time or after the
standard times. Like Ryuk says: Shinigamis don't normally use the DN in this
or that uncommon situation or way. It was Ryuk who wrote the rules (at best
copied a manual in the world of Shinigamis) so it is safe to say that the
rules don't contain the whole truth.

A Shinigami normally kills human that have several years left - someone who
has to use a pacemaker has low chances to live that long - so the Shinigamis
just don't know what happens in this case (they are not interested in such
things after all) and assume that heart attack is the ultimate fallback but in
the end (at least in canon), the DN will never fail.


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