Normally when this is asked, people think about reviving, curing, resurrecting. This question is about who you save if you were transported to a time a little before their death, like maybe a day before or even a week before. Anything about terminal illnesses or diseases contracted don’t really count here because, when those things happen, they happen and there’s really nothing you could do to have prevented it.
I think I would’ve wanted to prevent JFK’s assassination. I’d tell him “dude, do not get in that limo and drive down Elm Street” and I’d show him a newspaper clip of the day of his assassination. I’d probably be looked at a little crazily and suspected of maybe being involved in something that pertains to that day. But, it’s an effort I would’ve gone through to do that.
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And open the door to thousands different atrocities committed by thousands of different people
I feel you’re very optimistic if you think that single key people made all the difference in the world and that without them, no other key people would have stepped up
“Aaron Schwarz get the fuck out of that IT cabinet. We need to go to Cincinatti zoo and put a bulletproof vest on a gorilla.”
my uncle. because he would have beat my fathers ass for the disrespect he showed my mother.
I would never have been born, and thus never would be alive in this timeline.
bonus, I get to personally test my theories about paradoxes.
If we’re just talking famous people and not family/people I knew, Douglas Adams. I don’t like living in a world where Douglas Adams dies at 49 and Henry Kissenger lives to be 100.
Ignoring the post’s restrictions, my grandfather. I think he would have beat my father’s ass for how poorly I was treated.
John Brown
Mine
Probably Elliott Smith, though I don’t think he’d want it.
My little brother
Seconded
Bless
…i think if yitzhak rabin hadn’t been assassinated, the trajectory of twenty-first-century globalism would have been very different, potentially sustaining the progressive momentum mustered in the early nineties…
(not that he was personally responsible for that trajectory, but the butterfly-effect tendrils of his assassination run deep and wide)
My wife’s father. He committed suicide back in 2019 after a few years of him getting more and more distant and depressed. Of course it is a gamble since we do believe it was his brain deteriorating kind of similar to what Robin Williams had, but at the same time i also believe he was kind of miserable having to deal with his family’s problems which consisted of his 3 daughters and his wifes issues. A week after he passed his wife was then diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and she also passed within 3 months as well. It was a crazy year to say the least. I just wonder so much what he would have done if he was alive to see his wifes passing if that would have changed his decision because i really feel like if he knew he no longer had to take care of her he wouldnt have had to worry so much about living out his life in fear of running out of money anymore and that he may have finally been able to do what he wanted to do which i think he felt trapped.
Sun Yat Sen (孫中山)
I wonder if my birth country would’ve been in a better place, be making more friends in the world instead of antagonizing everyone like PRC and CCP is doing, destroying the reputation of my people abroad, and causing widespread Sinophobia.
My son. It would likely only delay his death, as he was determined to end his life. Even off it was only for one day, it would give me another chance to let him know i loved him, to let his younger siblings see him one last time.
Kelvin Kiptum. He was one of the greatest prospects in really advancing marathon world records. It might take another few generations until someone with the same kind of potential enters the scene.
Lincoln’s.
I’ve no idea whether Reconstruction would’ve been successful with him at the helm, but it almost certainly would’ve gone better.
Andrew Johnson pardoning nearly every traitor so they could rot our country from the inside out like a cancer definitely didn’t help.
Sounds pretty damn similar to what the current corrupt administration does. So, before anyone dares say “No president in history has done this!” all they need to look up is Andrew Johnson.
