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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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.
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.
Man this one hurts to read.
I used to read things like this and be relatively unaffected, but since becoming a father myself, it’s beyond my worst nightmare.
Just the thought of it makes me have a physical feeling in my gut.I’m sure you have control in life, but know that an internet stranger is thinking of you today and wish you and your loved ones all the best.
Hug your kids, let them know they are loved. You never know when it will be the last time you see them.
So true. As a former feral/latchkey kid I am no essentially no-contact with my parents because of how shit they were and still are. I don’t want my kid to ever wonder if I am proud of them or love them so I never miss a chance to say it. Things can happen so fast and tragedy is all too common in the US with a child in public school.
I was mostly a latch key kid, although my mom fervently denies that. Hell my key is still hidden in the lampost at my dad’s house.
I’m so sorry for your unimaginable loss.
My friend, Chris, who ended his life. It’s been years, but I’d give just about anything to have him back.
Harambe.
We could have had utopia, but instead we killed Harambe.
Aaron Swartz.
😭 I would’ve married him & birthed his offspring to replicate more of him!
My late father. He passed away July 21, 2014.
Back in January that year, I came home from work, and he told me that he made some eggs and grits. But when he ate it, it was too hot, but his reflexes made him swallow it anyways. Which basically boiled his insides… ☹️
He refused to let me call emergency services, hell he even told me that if I did so without his permission, he would shoot them, and yes he slept on a couch loaded with multiple guns under the couch cushions. He even threatened to kill me if I called emergency services without his permission.
5 months in, I realized that daddy wasn’t gonna recover, as he was seeking cell phone signal the morning before I was about to head out to work. Daddy like never called anybody, so when I saw him seeking a good cell signal, I asked him if he wanted me to step out and call 911 myself.
He said, and I quote, “Hold the fuck on, I’m getting ready”
Needless to say, I missed work that day. I got him to the hospital, where he lived for another month or so, but passed away because he didn’t tend to his health back in January when the situation happened.
I’d write out more about this, but it’s too sad for me to think more on.
Damnit daddy, I coulda saved you, if you weren’t so stubborn!
☹️😭💀
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.
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
“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.”
unzips
RBG. I wound have forced her to resign.
Martin Luther King maybe?
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.
My dad. Fuck cancer.
My mom’s
My best buddy who feel asleep at the wheel 2km from his destination.
Could’ve been there with him to keep him awake 1 more minute. Or drive. Or maybe I’d have died with them.
I’ve stopped asking myself “what if”, I’ll never know, but I miss you buddy.
