If you could bring someone back to life who would it be?
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February 12th, 2009
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I wouldn’t. Who says anyone wants to be brought back to life? You’d only be doing so for selfish reasons.
i would bring back everyone who died before they were 10, unless they didnt want to come back
My grandpa.. He had a heart attack and it took a few days for him to die. I never went to visit when he was in the hospital. I didn’t want to see him while he was hooked up to machines. I was selfish.
I would like to be able to apologize for that and tell him how much he meant to me.
@johnpowell
You’d be indirectly responsible for making him die all over again as well.
My great-grandfather. He was the oldest person I ever knew and I never got the chance to glean many stories from his memory of the old days. All those old memories are vanishing as the old folks die and if no one writes them down they are lost forever.
Didn’t we just have this question?
@asmonet it certainly does sound familiar.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard, or
ODB
Dirt McGirt
Dirt Dog
Osiris…
oh, please, please send that man to a dentist.
I’d bring back my father. He passed away from cancer in 2000. The world was such a nicer place with him in it. I still miss him very much even today.
What if the results is like Pet Cemetery or they come back as Zombies?
That would be no bueno. Old dirt might bite someone’s forehead with that busted grill.
I’m not sure it’d be the kindest thing to do, bringing someone back from the dead.
How about bringing back a terrible person like Hitler and letting the holocaust survivors and descendants of the holocaust victims have a go at him?
@peedub lurve for mentioning ODB!!! Wu tang teaches the children haha
@asmonet I completely forgot about that mirah Carey is hot lurve
@adri027 Thanks. Have you read this article about ODB’s conversation with Clint Eastwood, ‘recorded’ by Harmony Korine? It’s kind of amazing.
“Thanksgiving shoes…”
If we bring back Einstein what theory would we get from him?
Shakespeare, with the help of some serious smelling salts and a heater…
My Papa. He was a good man who did a lot of good things for people. I believe that he made the lives of the people he knew better simply be being in them. When a friend needed help, he was there to help. If a family member was in trouble, he would do anything he could. And when one of us grandkids got in trouble, he was the one to call to bail us out. No question about it, I’d bring my Papa back.
@tennesseejac – who will take can of these multitudes of once dead kiddies? I’m afraid unless you can market them as designer spawn they will end up in foster homes like all the normal orphans.
@fundevogel Im sure these kids had families that would be thrilled to have their youngins back. I know if my little brother or sister died before she was ten years old I would love to have them back. Think of all the amazing things that these kids didnt get to experience.
my grandpa who died at 56…he would steer me in the right direction.
Depends how you look at it: bringing them back to this moment in time or to the day when they’ve died. In the first case, I would go for Dian Fossey. Second option: JFK, the world would be a different place if he could have finished what he started.
The music world would definitely be different if everyone from the 27 club were back and kickin. (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Pigpen, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Robert Johnson)
What about Biggie (age 24) and 2Pac (age 25)?
John Lennon was only 40, and Elvis 42
All of these artists had sooooo much more left in them
Hansie Cronje…...........
No family members why go through the pain of losing them twice?
No celebrities/historical figures what the fuck makes them so special they get to come back?
No pets the Micmac burial ground is sour
How about bringing back parachute pants?
My dad who died of cancer few years ago.
it should be someone like Mamatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King, but my first thought was my pet cocker, Prince, the light of my life, who died two years ago. I really miss cuddling with him and running my hands through his glorious red fur. (And he’d be happy to be back and clueless as to where he’d been as always.)
Benjamin Franklin- but I think it would piss him off to see where our government has gotten us.
I would love to bring back M.L. King so he could see the wonderful thing his country just did.
I’d also love to give Leonardo DaVinci a tour of our modern world, show him O’Hare airport, Best Buy, downtown Chicago…hm, what else?. I wonder what he’d say about all this.
@ Harp – I’m sure I’ve o.d.‘d on giving you lurve; I think your answers are always thoughtful and interesting to read. Who is your son (or does he not want outing?)
@janbb Thanks! I wouldn’t have outed him first, but he’s already done it, so…
After Harp’s usual deep and wonderful answers this will sound shallow, but I’d like to bring Freddie Mercury back so I could here Queen perform live in concert.
Sounds like he’d be your son – a neat kid!
I’d noticed a new voice around; thought it was a woman. Silly me.
My first girlfriend Betty, who died much too soon and at a very young age.
All the souls who were taken too early to experience the true beauty life has to offer.
Definitely my Grandfather. Though he never knew it, he helped immensely in shaping who I am today. I loved and respected him, and he taught me so very much. I wish now as an adult, I could talk to him about life.
@peedub she was taking it real. That bitch thought she was you haha have you seen when he interrupted the Grammys? Haha
Sure are alot of glass half empty people here.
Lady my family lived with when we first moved to the U.S. Died from smoke from a fire some other moron started. She was a great lady.Naturally speaking she had at east 20 or so years to go.
Gilda Radner and all the famous comedians
@tennesseejac But you made a rather inclusive statement, one that would bring back tons of kids that don’t have any living family, or have family that are no longer of child-rearing years. Don’t you think it might just be painful and awful of reunite a six year old with their now eighty year old parents? Not cool.
@fundevogel Im sure no matter how old the parents were they would always love to have their child back. And, I was just implying that it sucks to die before you get to experience the great things in life like SEX, DRIVING, COLLEGE, ETC…
William Brennan. What a brilliant man.
Carl Sagan, he left us too soon.
If you asked me this question in October I would have said my aunt. She was a second mom to me. I miss talking to her and hearing all her stories.
She was such a wonderful person. As much as i miss her Today, I would say my fatherinlaw. He passed away in October. I know my husband
misses him terribly. So for my husband I would ask for my fatherinlaw to return and be with us. Life is just not the same without him.
Buddy Holly, I believe my family who have passed have done their job in this world and they are obviously needed in the next.
Buddy however moved on at too young an age, he introduced Rock and Roll to the world and left allowing others to become masters..
Id bring him back just to show everyone how real music should be written and played !!!
Anyone who didnt get the chance to live life. If a child dies I would bring them back to life because everyone deserves a chance to live.
Enjoy the ensuing world hunger, extreme poverty and war that follows.
@forestGeek ahh you’re one of the ones that dislikes him?
i’d be down for him to come back
Frank Zappa. The man was barely 50, and had so much more to do.
I could be selfish and wish for the people I have loved who have passed to spirit to come back to life. But if this were a real wish, I would bring back all the murdered children: Calee Anthony, the Smith brothers, Andrea Yates five children, and all the rest who were taken through no fault of their own far too soon. Who knows what they may have brought to the world had they been given a chance at life?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Shepard, and every other peaceable person who was assassinated for who they were or what they believed.
John Lennon and George Harrison
Heath Ledger, so he could play The Joker in Batman 3
My mother. She died at 56, 5 years before I located her. I realize that it’s selfish but, I wish so much that I could have met her.
So many questions.
My Great Grandfather. He was the and still is the greatest man in the world!
My grandparents. I only know my mom’s dad. He’s still alive and he’s amazing. But his wife and my dad’s parents all died when I was really young. I wish I could have gotten to know them. All I have of them is pictures and memories of my mom’s mom being very messed up because of Alzheimer’s. I wish I could have known what she was actually like. Maybe she could have answered all the questions I have about my mom’s childhood.
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