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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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.
Think I’d have gone with saving my grandmother from cancer when my dad was 4, hopefully if they caught it early enough she would’ve lived and my grandfather wouldn’t become a twisted abusive man and my dad could’ve had a normal upbringing. Maybe then he would be reasonable enough to stay in contact with.
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.
Aaron Swartz.
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.
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.
RBG. I wound have forced her to resign.
Martin Luther King maybe?
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.
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!
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No “famous” person. Two families that are friends of mine. Both have lost a child at ages 8 / 10 from accidents, and they could never really get over it and it has changed their lives so much.
By that standard… All the Palestinians, Cubans, Peruvian, Lebanese, Libyans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Koreans, Africans , Eastern Europeans, Asians etc etc etc who really just wanted to build a better society for themselves and their descendants, probably even the world that the empire couldn’t allow to live and do that.
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.
