You Find a Deathnote...

[binvjoh]

I'd destroy it. Good thing the whole "you die if you do"-thing was a bluff.

 

[Wereduck]

I would kill so many people, but replace "Heart attack" with "explosive diarrhea" as cause of death.

Awesome, I love this idea.

By the way - didn't Ryuk eventually tell Light that the reason a human who uses a death note can't go to heaven or hell is because they don't exist?

As for me, I'd use it on people who keep me disgusted for longer than a month straight - in my entire life I can think of maybe a dozen. Killing criminals has been done throughout history and has never stopped criminal behavior because, like WhiteFangofWar said above, they're the symptom rather than the problem - it's like trying to cure someone's cold by gluing their nostrils shut.

 

[Death God]

I wouldn't use it due to the fact that I couldn't go to heaven or hell but I would flash it around and nobody would have to know I have never used it. But if I had to use it, I would use it to get the shinigami's eyes. I could see anyone's name and time/place of death. Would make for an interesting introductions to people I don't know.

 

[Mstrswrd]

I have a Death Note.
If it was real, like most people I'd imagine, I'd at leats test it to make sure.
Then I'd probably turn into a more amateurish Kira that would be caught easily.

Would you tell anyone? Seriously, as long as you don't, you know, ever imply anything about the fact that you are killing people, no-one would ever know to even look.

Anyway, a lot of people would die. I always say that, but seriousl, nowadays it would be so much worse. A lot fo politicians from many, many countries would die some of the most painful horrifying deaths possible. Seriously, the pain inflicted on them would be the very worst someone like me could come up with, and I come up with horrifying things all the bloody time.

I would also use it to give peaceful, painless deaths to those I care about if they were dieing painful deaths from things like cancer.

I might even test some loopholes. For example, what if you write your own death in the Death Note, but write it in such a way that you'll live, unaging, for, say, 500 years? Just write "At the Age of 500, *Name Here* shall die painlessly in his sleep after having not aged past the body of a 30 year old." There, boom, instant elongated life and young body to use until than.

Hell, if you can find a second one, you can write your name in that one to neutralize the first, and do this in an eternal loop, elongating your life until you feel it's time for you to die.

 

[Mstrswrd]

Sorry, double post (the first one wasn't appearing, so I purposefully reposted it, and than they both appeared.) This is my first ever double post. Freaking momentous (sarcasm so thick you can cut it with a knife).

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

one name and one name only. but pages and pages dedicated to a carefully planned execution that not only kills the poor bas****, but Globally shames them

 

[Soushi]

I am KIRA.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

I got bullied to the point where i had to go to therapy back a few years ago, an i vowed if i got a chance i would kill who did it too me.
I would test the DeathNote first then go back on my promise.

 

[HigherTomorrow]

It'd take a lot for me to be forced into using it. I care too much about my life, my family, and my friends, and I just don't see myself as being a mass murderer.

 

[Iron Glorfindel]

I would burn it. You don't .mess. with such power. You know what they say about absolute power. Too many ways for things to go wrong.

 

[twaddle]

I personally think light was a bloody idiot. if I was going to change world by killing people and making it a better place, i would not begin the so called purification in my own fucking country and district like that twit! he started his spree in his own district of japan like a dumb ass. start with the major international criminals smart ass. My left bollock has more common sense than that little git. But no i would not use it but i would hold on to it for a while. perhaps i could give it to someone who's worthy....then again i may just burn it

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

go thru the listings of child abusers/child molesters/child murderers and rapists and start writing names down

I rather spend a an eternity in purgatory than see another child a victim of a monster

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

I'd write Justin Bieber, the dude from Superbad and all those other lame movies, the dude from Napoleon Dynamite, and a few others, and hope that my contribution to humanity was enough that it would negate the whole, "Not going to heaven or hell." bit.

Oh yeah, and Bin Laden. Someone's gotta take that dude out.

...I wonder what happens if you write the name of someone who's already dead...

 

[Hman121]

I wouldn't use it to kill, but to use it as a way to prove that there is a Heaven and Hell, just exactly how, I'm not sure.

 

[zombays]

I'd kill...let's see.... a bunch of corrupt politics, drug cartel members, and Bobby Kotick. Oh yeah, and Fred Phelps.

 

[geldonyetich]

Another thread for my "list of the 100 most often posted thread topics on the Escapist forums" list. The "death note" topic being just a deviation under the, "if you could kill somebody and get away with it" umbrella. Of course, the idea must have some popular culture appeal, that's why they made The Box [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Box_%28movie%29].

 

[SilverUchiha]

I would do exactly as Kira did. However, I would be much smarter about it so they could never find me. He wanted people to know that there was a "god" delivering justice to the world. Me? I'd like to take a more "from the shadows" approach and not have my presence known at all.

EDIT: But I'd do my best to avoid making any of the killings personal like politicians I dislike or people I dislike. People would die because they deserve it... or if they're name is Adrian.