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I know that the death notes have certain, almost magical, attributes to them
(unlimited pages, the fact that you can kill someone by envisioning their face
and writing their name down, etc). Given that, I was wondering if these
properties apply to their destructibility too and if that was the case,
whether Light's plan to burn the Death Note if someone opened his desk
incorrectly would even have worked in the first place.


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How does one, if it is possible, destroy a death note?


I remember in [Episode 2 -
Confrontation](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Confrontation), Light and Ryuk
are in a secluded area where Light explains to Ryuk how he will devise a way
to prevent others from touching the death note, pouring flammable liquid on a
book and lighting it on fire.

The purpose of the experiment was for creating a trap for the Death Note
because Ryuk warns Light that if Saya were to touch the Death Note when she
came in to get help on her homework, she would be able to see him. this blows
Lights original plan to claim to have been taking notes as practice for
becoming a detective should someone discover the death note.

Later in the Episode light is explaining to Ryuk back in his room about how he
has hidden the Death Note, i can't be for sure what light says but he does say
the explosion from his booby trap will "destroy the evidence" so he may be
hinting that the Death Note would be destroyed aswell.

In the [Rules](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note) it
makes references to the Death Note being destroyed, in How to use LXII, it
says

> If the victim’s name has been written and then the Death Note is destroyed
> in the middle of writing the cause of death, the victim will be killed by
> heart attack in 40 seconds after writing the name.

Finally the second live action film of Death Note "The Last Name" however,
when Rem dies from killing Watabi, to prevent Light getting his hands on
another Death Note Rem destroys it aswell, however since the live action
movies play out differently to the anime i'm not sure how close they are to
the canon on how the Death Note works.

With all of this, it seems like the death note can be destroyed, however i'm
unsure if How to Use: XXXI is still in effect if a page is ripped out before
the note is destroyed, it is after Light creates this booby trap he starts to
rip out pages and use them instead like when he was being watched


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In ep35 of the anime, it is clearly shown that a paper from the Death Note
held by Takada is burned in the flames when she and her body got burned by
Light actions earlier. and every page of the Death Note is known to have the
powers of the Death Note. [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5BYuw.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5BYuw.png)


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