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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…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.
My little brother
Seconded
Bless
Kevin Conroy. Some other actors can do Batman’s voice fairly good but no one tops Kevin.
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.
Terry Fox. One of humanity’s gems.
Mine and my family’s. I don’t know how to cope with and accept the finality of life. Hope ghosts are allowed here.
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.
In terms of US History, Abraham Lincoln, by far. What a completely different country this would be today. Or at least would have had a good chance to be.
go further, kill Alexander the Great…prevent Romes rise entirely
I would travel back in time and prevent the deaths of all the other sperms in the load that became Justice John Roberts Jr. If only one of those other sperms got into that egg.
This court Jester that thinks that 12 years after civil rights and voting rights were extended to black people, that there was no racism to deal with anymore and has been trying to overturn them until he succeeded this time.
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.
Aaron Swartz.
😭 I would’ve married him & birthed his offspring to replicate more of him!
Harambe.
We could have had utopia, but instead we killed Harambe.
My friend, Chris, who ended his life. It’s been years, but I’d give just about anything to have him back.
Fred Hampton. I don’t mean to pass over other civil rights martyrs, but the Black Panthers were something special. Real revolutionary politics, organised, and taking direct action; the high-water mark of leftest politics in modern America.
