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During the Namek Saga of Dragon Ball Z, the first wish to Porunga was to bring
Piccolo back, next was teleport him to Namek but before the third wish could
be granted Guru died making the Namekian Dragonballs useless.

After Freeza sets Namek to explode the Dragonballs bad been collected on earth
(now that Kami was back) and the wish made to Shenron was to _"Bring back
everyone who had been killed by Freeza"_. after this the Namekian Dragonballs
come back and Dende uses the final wish to teleport everyone except Freeza and
Goku to earth.

what i don't get is how Guru was resurrected when the wish to Shenron was to
bring everyone Freeza had killed back to life, why was Guru brought back to
life even though he wasn't killed by Freeza?


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Why did Guru come back to life?


It's true that Grand Elder Guru was not **directly** killed by Freeza's hands,
but his death was someway caused by Freeza, according to [Dragon Ball
Wiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Grand_Elder_Guru):

> He dies before Frieza is defeated, of a combination of a broken heart and
> stress (both brought on from repeatedly sensing his children's deaths at the
> hands of Frieza's minions).

So the way Freeza and his minions decimated his race caused his death. So the
wish "Bring back everyone who had been killed by Freeza" involves a lot more
cases than only the ones that died from Freeza's hands. It also involves the
ones killed **indirectly** by his acts.

To confirm this, the Wiki also says:

> King Kai chooses to revive him and all the other victims of Frieza's army
> with the Earth's Dragon Balls so the Namekian dragon, Porunga, would be
> brought back. The wish revives Elder Guru because Frieza's murder of the
> Namekians caused Guru to die of grief.


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This is all explained by King Kai during the Freeza Saga in **chapter 321**.

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here!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmRTUm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmRTU.png)

King Kai asks Kami whether people that had died from old age could be revived,
to which the answer was negative. So then he asks whether people that had
indirectly died by an evil person could be revived, to which the answer was
positive.

Kami replied positive, saying that even though it'd be a first-time case, he'd
believe it would be possible to revive those that indirectly died. They would
then remain alive for the duration of time their life was shortened by.

> King Kai: What if they were confronted by an evil person, and, indirectly
> though it may be, their death was hastened, even a little bit...?  
>  Kami: I believe they would remain alive for the duration of time their life
> was shortened by...

Knowing this, King Kai asked not only to bring back those killed by Freeza
himself, but also by his henchman (Eg: which would include Vegeta).


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They actually address this in the anime. Guru died from a broken heart due to
Frieza's genocide of his people and utter destruction of his home planet. So
technically, Frieza did kill guru, even though it wasn't directly, he was
still responsible.


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