If Goku failed to escape Namek in time, would he be revivable with the dragon balls?

[Warmmedown]

Would it be a "natural death"?

 

[Warrior_of_Mite]

Getting blown to bits by a planet doesn't sound very natural to me. I think natural was more like dying of old age. Not getting taken out by nature itself.

 

[Zippy]

No and since namek was intentionally blown up by frieza it wouldn't even count as a "natural" disaster

 

[Yoshi]

This is the reason why Krillin wasn't in The Other World, wasn't it?

 

[Papasmurf]

The Namekian DBs revive a person at the site of their deaths unless their souls are anchored to afterlife bodies like the humans on Kaio planet or Vegeta during the Boo arc. Kuririn (and Goku when he was believed dead) were to be revived on Namek when they thought about reviving them, which is why Porunga had to physically warp their souls before reviving them

 

[GSM123]

This is the reason why Krillin wasn't in The Other World, wasn't it?

What are you talking about? Anyone that dies goes to the Other World.

 

[Yoshi]

What are you talking about? Anyone that dies goes to the Other World.

I thought that Krillin's soul was stuck on Namek.

 

[Papasmurf]

I thought that Krillin's soul was stuck on Namek.

The site of his revival itself was set to where Namek was. But he'd have been in Other World while dead. Similar to people killed by Boo before Earth exploded all of whom came back to life on Earth except Vegeta whose soul was in his afterlife body in Kaioshit Kai