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So you can't use the Death Note to kill someone else. If you write something
like:

> "John Zerto burns himself to death after he killed his boss"

John would simply die of a heart attack so he couldn't kill his boss. But if
you would write:

> "John Zerto dies after a heart attack after he tried to shoot his boss"

That could work. After 6 minutes and 40 seconds, John would take out his gun
and try to shoot his boss. And because there's a chance his boss could
survive, it could possibly work. So what do you think? Could this work?


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Can the scenario for someone's death be written so that there is a possibility of other people dying?


No, the Death Note is precisely for killing someone else. Using a method like
"John Zerto burns himself to death after killing his boss." could work since
it's within the realm of possibility that John Zerto could kill his boss and
that John Zerto could burn himself to death afterwards.

The 6:40 rule applies to if you've begun to write someone's name down in the
Death Note, but have not specified how or when they will die. If you don't
specify the details within 6:40 the person who's name you have written down
will die of a heart attack after 40 seconds.

There aren't any rules against using someone to kill someone else in the Death
Note. So this is an entirely possible scenario. If you go into specifics, e.g.
John kills his boss with a gun, but it's not possible for John to obtain a
gun, John will simply die of a heart attack.


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> Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it influences and
> causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim’s cause of
> death will be a heart attack

There are three possibilities and chosing between them is speculation. None
kill the boss. As Madara said, you could merely include the name of the Boss
to skirt this. Lets say the boss, therefore, goes by the identifier B to avoid
this. Lets say John Zerto is his bodyguard so his ability to obtain a gun or
find B is trivial.

If you say "John Zerto dies of burns after killing B by shooting him" then
John will just die of a heart attack.

If you say "John Zerto dies of burns after shooting B" then either John will
just die of a heart attack or he will non-fatally shoot B before burning to
death. I believe it is the former.

If you say "John Zerto dies of burns after trying to kill B by shooting him"
then either John will just die of a heart attack, he will non-fatally shoot B,
or he will attempt to shoot B but will inevitably miss every shot (or won't
get any off). Of course he burns to death after either of the last two
options. I believe it is the first again but this is speculation.

The only thing I know is that any of these options result in John Zerto dying
and B living. I include here the possibility that B could be maimed but this
can be logically excluded by assuming Kira is smarter than you. If he could
mentally disable L by having a soldier non-fatally shooting him in the head,
he would have. He would not have missed this possibility and, therefore, it
does not exist. We can extend this to assume that extreme phyisical harm is
prevented.

Note that this all must mean the universe of Death Note is either
deterministic to some degree or the death note is intellegently moderated. The
book/death itself knows if action A will result in someone else's immediate
death or someone makes that call each time looking at the situation.


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Rule X (I think) specific says

> Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident,
> if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will
> simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not
> influenced.

So if written in the Deah Note "John Zerto burns himself to death after he
killed his boss" it won't be possible.

However, the second example you gave "John Zerto dies after a heart attack
after **he tried** to shoot his boss" might be possible since a [gunshot don't
necessarily kill people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunshot_wound) so if he
has a gun (because if he can't get one he will die of a heart attack) the DN
will make John Zerto shot his boss in a way he won't be killed, but if it's
not possible to the boss the got shot and not get killed like he have bad
health and will be dead the DN will prevent John to shoot his boss and will
die of a heart attack.

And this only for the difference since it is not written that he shot his boss
**to kill him** just shot _to shoot_ him, the DN talked about other deaths,
_not injures._


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