If you can travel thru time and save one person who would you pick and why?

I want to go back in time and warn a certain person he had a deadly health condition that was a ticking time bomb and could kill him at any moment. I would then urge him to go to the hospital and get a health checkup asap. It might not help anything, but at least I tried.

Some of you on Fluther may know who I’m talking about.

^^yes

I guess I would go back in time and tell my brother not to run that race that killed him because he ran in front of a car. My life would be very different if he had lived.

To ‘save’ someone, based on the Q, implies I would have the means to do so. Of the many people who’ve died in my lifetime, I couldn’t change/solve/effect their means of death.

Now, if magic were involved here, I’d choose my father in law because it would make my wife happy.

I would save my grandfather from being bucked off and stomped by a horse. The sagebrush that was ground into his skin started cancer that didn’t kill him for 40 years. He died a gruesome death and for all those years his face was horribly scarred.

If there were any way for my grandmother to live longer, I would have loved it and it would have helped me a lot. I loved her so much, like a second mother. When she died, I was 14 and my mom had just met my stepfather, who I didn’t have the best relationship with. We’re fine now, but at the time it was rough. My grandmother, in addition to being like a second mother to me, was like a backbone of support (emotional support). So she died and my stepfather moved in around the same time, and I was going through adolescence. It was a tough time for me.

Sounds selfish but I’d save my Father who died from leukemia when he was 32 (I was 4). He was a brilliant man as became a dentist at the age of 24. He left a vacuum inside of me that I filled with anger. Somehow at a young age I managed to turn the anger into a desire to work hard and do good.

Save a “famous person”? Robert Kennedy. He would have handedly won the 1968 election, the US would have been on a wildly divergent path for the last fifty years.

My Grandfather whom died with ALL the information of our family history going way back.
Could had if he was so inclined to share ?

He could had provided a complete history but on the other hand when I met him his personality was difficult and cantankerous, so not sure that he would had shared it anyways?

He died being the ONLY one that knew where he buried all this information.
(documents , photographs, stories )

Somewhere on his property, but no one had located it, so it may be lost to us forever.

I managed over many many years of grueling research to plot our pedigree but photographs would had been nice to add to.

Just because one were to be saved, doesn’t mean that they will be as one would imagine to be, since there are too many variables.

It would change the centilumen of time for everyone ‘s family.

We have only very few images from other relatives.

Correction: Trajectory would be a better word rather than continuum.( in my above remarks)

No one. I honestly can’t think of a reason why any one person would be more deserving than anyone else.

Save one? How about saving millions by killing one. I just might do it. lol