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I wanna get weird it, see if I can't bring back a t-rex. Also all the popes. A bunch of dead emperors too, I wanna see the tomb kings IRL. I guess the way to do that might be to ressurect people like Walt Disney and Edison so you can fuck with estates and copyright and IP. FDR and have him run for another term.

As for artists I'd say Bob Dylan. He might not be dead, but he's dead to me.

Honorable mentions for and Ned Kelly.

Oh and anastasia romanov so we can finally shut up all those people who claim to be her grandchild. I'm petty like that.

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Assuming lifenote works like the death note I'd resurrect some apparatchiks with the condition they help me write names (They're gonna put the names on stamps so I can just stamp the book for peak efficiency). Is it indentured servitude? I suppose, but only for 24 hours, so cry about it.

Then I'd stamp the names of as many communist revolutionaries I can think of. Gonna highlight Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, but just assume all of them, even the ones we kinda dislike like Trotsky.
Then I'd go for people who died "too soon" or "before their time" - As many murdered palestinians as I can find the names of. People like Emmet Till. Friends who took their own lives, people who committed suicide in general I suppose. The mother of a good friend who died of alzheimers in her 50's. A lot of my parents friends died in their 40's from cancer due to where they grew up and I don't like it when my mom is sad, so all of them. My dad never got over the loss of his girlfriend, so her.

Then there's the people it would be nice or cool to have chat with. Get some answers from. Even just be confirmed they existed and what they were actually doing. People like Jesus Christ, Kǒng Fūzǐ, Siddhartha Gautama, Muhammed (PBUH), some medieval peasants to feed doritos, some mercenaries to ask if they really did hit each other with sticks and how that didn't mess them up mentally. Riemann so I can get that little shit to prove the hypothesis. Think of all the questions we have today that we can never get a definite answer to. Well bring me a name related to it and you got it. All the pre-colonial history of south america that just died out. I'll resurrect Moctezuma and have him name names of people who can name names of people who can and so on and so forth.
I've got some linguist friends and they would squeal with joy at the possibility of possibly hearing dead languages spoken out loud by native speakers. Not to mention all the texts we can't translate or struggle to translate. People think that assyrian joke about a dog walking into a bar is odd, wait till they hear a tight five from Sargon of Akkad. I'd bring back Pompey Magnus to have him tell me where his ship went down so I can have all his gold too, I love treasure hunting.
Gonna revive all the guys who had part in writing the canonical bible so I can ask them how they really knew jebus.
Whoever is the oldest human being with a name I guess. Or I could just go the Moctezuma route again until we are back at cavemen.
Anyone who is a named ghost so we can ask them if they were actually ghosting about.

That leads me to another tangent - All the conspiracies and mysteries. I'll bring back Marilyn Monroe and ask her if she really did take her own life. Lee Harvey Oswald of course. Jim Jones maybe? There's some conspiracies about him. The 9/11 hijackers lol.

If I've got more time? Maybe artists and celebrities who either died too soon, would be good for the time or who I'd just like to get back because I miss their voices - some on the condition I can also cure them. Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin, Tupac, Kurt Cobain, Biggie, George Harrison, Ian Curtis, Kentaro Miuta, Akira Toriyama, Phil Hartman, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Vincent van Gogh (basic I know, but after I watched Loving Vincent I couldn't get the guy out of my head), Janis Joplin, Francisco Goya, Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee (I like Kung Fu movies), Alan Rickman (conditional on him at the very least giving me a pat on the head and a kiss on the cheek), Steve Irwin. Classical composers too, I wanna see what they'd do with modern stuff. Great athletes, Muhammad Ali in a world where he could perform in his peak. Mary Shelley, just because I like her stuff, same goes for a lot of authors really. Terry Pratchett (GNU), Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plaith, Franz Kafka, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and fuck it lets get some philosophers too - Diogenes and Hypatia seems like some good ones. Nietzche so he can be mad at incels.

Still got more time? You know, lets just go for a wide swathe of famous historical figures while we're at it, what could go wrong? All the romans and persians and greeks. All the chinese emperors, all their conqubines, all their eunuchs and Cao Cao who is so nice I'll bring him back twice.

After that? Oh wow I thought I'd run out of time, okay lets get wacky with it. Some dinosaurs maybe? If they don't use names there must be some other way to do it. That big white whale that the ancient greeks beefed with for a couple decades. Abraham Lincoln I guess, he's good enough I suppose. Then I'd write my own name in 30 different times with a scheduled date for each of the next 30 days (death note rules) and I'd go do crazy reckless stuff. I could be useful for science for a little while maybe. Or I could be the most daring assassin the world has seen for about 30 days (no need to be afraid of getting shot).

And of course the two turtles I had as a child, who died because I didn't know how to care for them and my dad just bought them for me because he's that kind of shitty dad.