User blog comment:MisaRestInPeace/Why continue to suspect? Ending up miserable? My questions. Contains spoilers./@comment-5946451-20120811123302

The Task Force only knew so much about the Death Notes. For the rest, they had to take the word of a Shinigami, who they weren't even sure they could trust. Not a slap in the face at all. They ended up being correct, anyway, right? Those who use the Death Note end up miserable because their actions come back to bite them in the butt. How was it NOT their fault? Shinigami. Gods of death. Their purpose is to help  cause death. It's how they survive. Humans have no reason to kill. And Shinigami don't kill every day. In fact, they kill VERY rarely. Only when they think they need to. Yes, Shinigami brought Death Notes to the Human World, but humans have freewill, and it is their choice to pick it up, and to use it. So Light would have likely ended up successful, had he not picked up the Death Note. But he did. He became corrupted by it. Whereas another may pick it up, use it, and then throw it away, horrified with its powers. Rem cared for Misa, yes, but she only began caring for her a while after haunting her. She did the eye trade with her, and gave her the Death Note, because she hadn't cared previously. Why do you think she was mortified when she saw Misa had halved her lifespan a second time? Nearly all of the Kira were found guilty. Higuchi, Light, Mikami, and almost Misa, were all prove guilty, and to be criminals. Light was the main culprit because he was the one who restarted the whole "Kira" thing. And HOW exactly was Light supposed to tell the world he was Kira right before dying? In one version he was wounded and couldn't even walk out of the warehouse district, and in the other he had forty seconds. Where could he get to? And even if he could tell everyone, they'd only have his word to go by. Most of the world probably WOULDN'T have believed him, since many think of Kira as a god; untouchable, omniscient.