YOU SAID:
Have you heard the news that you're dead?
INTO JAPANESE
君が死んだニュースを聞いたか。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Have you heard the news that you were dead?
INTO JAPANESE
君が死んだニュースを聞いたか。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Have you heard the news that you were dead?
That didn't even make that much sense in English.