constantly checking if a condition is true or false

Question

I'm new to python and programming in general and I am currently taking a course on Udemy. One of the projects is to create a pick your own adventure game. I've been doing pretty well until I came across something that has been picking at me. I wanted to display text depending on whether or not you have died by changing the condition of death from False to True. I know I can just add you died after the if/else statement with a print function but I wanted to make it a bit more challenging. Here's an example.

death = False
if death == True:
  print("\nYou died")

choice_1 = input("left or right:\n")
if choice_1 == "left":
  death = False
  print("*The next piece of dialogue*")
else:
  death = True
  print("*The next piece of dialogue*")

It would then print "you died" after the next piece of dialogue if the death changed to True.