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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John Smith. He was a well-liked and articulate left-leaning ex-lawyer who was leader of the Labour Party in the UK when he died of a heart attack in 1994. He was on the cusp of power and I honestly believe he would have changed things for the better.
I’d liked to have saved him and possibly Kurt Cobain, just because I was a huge fan.
I would have tipped off MLK, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton that the FBI was planning on killing them.
I feel like they probably knew. Almost gives a christological / martyr narrative, which I hope at least MLK would appreciate given his background. Certainly took balls on all of their parts.
As a trans person in the US, i believe they knew as far as they had accepted the idea of revolutionary suicide. Why did I bring up I was trans? because i intend to soon start medically transitioning and I have to question if i want to legally transition as well, and to what degree because the laws in the US are making it increasingly difficult to legally exist as a trans person. Either I repress myself and exist to conform or i live as myself and risk death/rape for that. and even in the former case it is unlikely i exist without scrutiny or repercussion given the fact I’m clearly not quiet about this.
similarly if you are an activist or revolutionary on that level you have to accept that the state is trying to suppress if not kill you; either you repress your own grievances and continue to let exploitation happen unchecked or you fight back and likely pay with your life. But again, anyone willing to consider the latter is still likely to face repercussions even if they choose the former. choosing to exist or operate outside of the hegemonic system of thought will lead to oppression in all forms, and anyone who is pragmatic will understand that being faced with that option typically means you have already gone too far to turn back. You either rebel or capitulate, and being a bootlicker doesn’t mean you live longer it just means you’ll be remembered as a traitor.
Thus i believe MLK, Malcom X, and Fred Hampton all knew they were going to die even if they did everything to prevent that outcome, but I don’t believe they knew they would die when they did though. At least for Fred Hampton he had a son and a wife; while i dont imagine myself having children i cannot fathom that someone with so much empathy could stomach the idea of leaving their child behind if they could prevent it.
RBG, at least long enough she can be replaced by a Dem scotus, to prevent ACB from illegitimately taking the SCOTUS. but now you have to deal with timeline changes, you might change the future in ways you cant imagine, it can actually be worst than what it was.
He didn’t die particularly young, but I think this world desperately needs Mr Rogers
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I’ll save mine for David Attenborough.
Daniel Naroditsky
The guy who almost killed Hitler.
What if we prevented Hitler from killing himself just so that he could go on trial and shown to the world hope much of a nut job he was? Maybe that would have helped diminish the mythos that racist bigots today see him? It would be more of a saving to torture him deal for sure
fornsworth did you use a giant laser to kill him.
“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.”
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.
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
John Brown
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.
My little brother
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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.
