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I think there was a pretty short limit on how far in the future you could write someone's death.
23 days. You had 40 seconds to write a cause of death and 6:40 to write the details, and could even pre-write the details and add the name(s) afterward but the Death Note could not effect anything that occurred more than 23 days in the future, with the exception of dying by a disease that would take longer than that to progress and not writing a time (in which case they develop the disease but die when/how the disease would take them). The real problem is that you also can't use the Death Note to directly extend someone's life by writing that they die after they normally would - if you try they just die however they would have died if you hadn't used the note. You can however use the Death Note to kill someone who is a threat to another, indirectly saving their life.
Anything you make them do also has to be something they might plausibly do on their own, or it just hits them with a heart attack. You also can't make them kill someone else, though I think you might be able to fudge that by writing that person A will be shot by person B, and then that person B will shoot person A. I could be misremembering, but I think that trick was used at one point.
Also, if the circumstances described are impossible, it will default to a heart attack.
That's a very painful version of play stupid games, win stupid prices.
No but the longer the time is that you describe the mor reasonable the actions have to be for the person to be.
So you can make a police officer shoot some random people but you can't make him save a black child /s
Oh, now, you could make him accidentally save a black child. Or get blinded immediately beforehand so he doesn't know the child is black.
Aren't all children black if you're blind?