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Originally Posted by Cai Calamigarde

Spoiler for i dunno...:

o Also, i believe that she can kill a person even his/her face is covered. Because Death Gods should be able to kill in the same conditions. If they could not, people would able to live through eternity by concealing their faces.. no..?

Spoiler:

Remember Ryuk's explanation for why Death Gods kill humans? It's because they get time added to their lives based on how much earlier than their natural lifespan the human died. This implies that Death Gods are not the cause of natural death, or even most accidental deaths. It seems that all they do is kill a few people here and there to achieve immortality and spend the rest of their time killing time, as it were. It's probably best not to think of them as incarnations of death, but supernatural beings with a specific power over death. There's really no reason for them to exist, but they do (in the world of Death Note) and this is a story about their powers.