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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Death Note] Can the Death Note be pre-empted when it comes to a scheduled death? Is it possible to kill someone sooner and in a different manner to what has been written in a Note or does having your name in it make you effectively unkillable until the specified time and date and method?
gpt
Yes, it can. The rules specifically state that the Death Note cannot be used to prolong someone's life; if they have a knife in their chest and are hemorrhaging blood, you can't write "Tony will die next Tuesday of a pleasant opioid overdose" to save him.

This is just a variation on that rule. The Death Note kills; it does not save. 

And if a death makes what was written in the Death Note impossible, the target will just die of a heart attack. For example, if you wrote "Tony will be murdered by his girlfriend in one hour," and his girlfriend died in a car accident on the way to his house, the Death Note would still take him, just by stopping his heart.