<p>Death note states that if there's no other way a person would die due to a heart attack, but what if when you should die via the death note you have no heart? And no, that's not a silly question, there's a machine used for heart tranplant surgery called extracorporeal circulation system that acts as a sort of heart for the person in which the surgery is being performed on while it's done. So, technically speaking if your name where to be written you could not die due to a heart attack, unless that by heart we would also consider that machine, although this is a bit far fetched. Then if you get another heart or put yours back you have avoided the death note effect, and at this point it has failed to its own rules. From this point I'm not sure what would happen.</p>

<p>I don't think something like that was covered either in the anime or the manga, although I think it would have been an interesting concept to explore, as they could have experimented with that if they wished, but maybe the author explained how things would be like in a case like this one in an interview.</p>

<p>Is there any official explanation or any thing I missed that would give an answer to my question?</p>

<p>Thanks. </p>

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2015-05-21T21:28:44.753Z
Of course, if the Death Note user knows that Joe Sixpack is on an extracorporeal circulation machine and the Death Note doesn't count this as a heart, the user can just write "Joe Sixpack. Extracorporeal circulation machine fails due to faulty schmobulator circuit."
Torisuda
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2015-05-22T10:43:51.717Z
Man! Why would anyone want to kill a person already on a Extracorporeal circulation machine??!! Makes no sense to kill a guy who is already useless(I meant 'harmless'). Would have been a different case if the guy was Dr. Charles Xavier! Lol
Arcanyx
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2015-05-22T11:07:56.690Z
@Torisuda I think OP meant, what would happen if the death note defaulted back to heart attack. For example in the case where an impossible cause of death was written down. Would the person just stay alive despite being written down in the DN?
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Could you avoid to die due to the death note if you have no heart in your body?
# Could you avoid to die due to the death note if you have no heart in your body?
Posted by: username_0 on 2015-05-21
Death note states that if there's no other way a person would die due to a heart attack, but what if when you should die via the death note you have no heart? And no, that's not a silly question, there's a machine used for heart tranplant surgery called extracorporeal circulation system that acts as a sort of heart for the person in which the surgery is being performed on while it's done. So, technically speaking if your name where to be written you could not die due to a heart attack, unless that by heart we would also consider that machine, although this is a bit far fetched. Then if you get another heart or put yours back you have avoided the death note effect, and at this point it has failed to its own rules. From this point I'm not sure what would happen.

I don't think something like that was covered either in the anime or the manga, although I think it would have been an interesting concept to explore, as they could have experimented with that if they wished, but maybe the author explained how things would be like in a case like this one in an interview.

Is there any official explanation or any thing I missed that would give an answer to my question?

Thanks.
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> **username_1**: Of course, if the Death Note user knows that Joe Sixpack is on an extracorporeal circulation machine and the Death Note doesn't count this as a heart, the user can just write "Joe Sixpack. Extracorporeal circulation machine fails due to faulty schmobulator circuit."  
> **username_2**: Man! Why would anyone want to kill a person already on a Extracorporeal circulation machine??!! Makes no sense to kill a guy who is already useless(I meant 'harmless'). Would have been a different case if the guy was Dr. Charles Xavier! Lol  
> **username_3**: @Torisuda I think OP meant, what would happen if the death note defaulted back to heart attack. For example in the case where an impossible cause of death was written down. Would the person just stay alive despite being written down in the DN?  
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