Died Too Young

[Aleph Null]

If you could resurrect someone for the betterment of mankind (artist, musician, scientist, leader, activist, etc) in their time, undoing their premature death and granting them a full natural life, who would it be? Cannot be someone you knew personally.

[Michael Knight]

Ernest Borgnine

[Brisketexan]

Joe Paterno.

[Rick Simon - S&S PI, Inc]

Jesus

[jimmyjazz]

Accounting for early passing? Kurt Cobain.

Trying to get a few more years out of them? Probably Leonardo da Vinci, or the easy answer (which is undoubtedly silly) Albert Einstein.

I should probably answer with some badass diplomat, but I can't think of any at the moment. Maybe Abraham Lincoln?

[OWLVIS]

SRV

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[HornOnTheBayou]

Ernest Borgnine

Going

Joe Paterno.

Going

Jesus

Gone.

Well done, gentlemen.

[Hagbard Celine]

SRV.

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[Hagbard Celine]

SRV

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dammit!!

[SPII]

David Duval

[PilotsError]

Obvious answer is obvious, but would have liked to see what Kennedy would have done with 8 years.

[Beau Vine]

Garrett Gilbert

[Math Mudrat]

Moseley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moseley

[Anastasis]

Obvious answer is obvious, but would have liked to see what Kennedy would have done with 8 years.

The zionists wouldn't have stood a chance.

[Wally Fairway]

King Tut

[SPII]

Moseley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moseley

whoa

[Hagbard Celine]

Turing trumps Moseley. But either way, both of them figured out stuff that others would have eventually figured out. They certainly accelerated their fields.

[Aleph Null]

or the easy answer (which is undoubtedly silly) Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein lived to an old age, and his productivity dropped as he got older, like most great thinkers. I think we squeezed all we could out of him in his time.

Obvious answer is obvious, but would have liked to see what Kennedy would have done with 8 years.

For politicians and leaders, I wonder if the world would have been better off if Alexander the Great lived to an old age. His empire certainly would have held together for much longer. Would this have shaped the world for the better?

Moseley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moseley

Great pick. I'm a little ashamed to say that this is the first I have learned of him. Accomplished a lot before the age of 30.

In the realm of science and math, I would pick Evariste Galois (one of the most tragic figures in math),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évariste_Galois

followed by Niels Abel and then Srinivasa Ramanujan.

[MaxBercovicz]

I don't want to turn this into the easter thread, but didn't jesus dying open up the gates of heaven and absolve sin and stuff? What more could he have accomplished in life that he didn't in death? I'm kinda glad he bit it when he did. You know, for all of us down here.

I'm going with Tupac.

[fortyakers]

George Patton. Imagine Korea with Patton and MacArthur. There would be no china.

[NameAlreadyInUse]

Turing. It was $#@!ing criminal what happened to him.

[jimmyjazz]

Albert Einstein lived to an old age, and his productivity dropped as he got older, like most great thinkers. I think we squeezed all we could out of him in his time.

Errr . . . this is exactly why I said it was a silly answer.

[Hagbard Celine]

I'm going with Tupac.

advantage aggy.

[Kyrie Eleison]

Mozart and Wittgenstein

[Emoryoid]

The one I would chose is Abraham Lincoln. Think about what happened as a result of his death. The country has a weak POTUS (Johnson) for the remainder of Lincoln's term. Lincoln believed in forgiving the South for the sake of bringing the country together. Much of Congress wanted to punish the South. That group won the day once Lincoln was murdered. As a result of Booth's crime, laws were passed that forced tremendous hardship upon Southerns. My ancestors for one were forced to pick up and move from the Southeast west to Arkansas and Oklahoma because they lost all their property due to the carpet baggers. The harshness of Reconstruction policies engendered tremendous animosity among white Southerners. Admittedly, they took that animosity out on the Blacks. Think of it ... if Lincoln had lived, the bringing of the country together would have been much smoother. Only since the 70's and the 80's have Blacks and Whites come together in the South; if Lincoln had lived this animosity between the races would have been over many decades earlier I believe. Plus, we likely would not have had the KKK and many of the other injustices committed by Whites against Blacks in the South. Not only that, but economic prosperity would have come to the South decades earlier. Though the wounds caused by Reconstruction have finally healed, I believe that, overall, if Lincoln had lived a full life, we would have a stronger nation today.

[sofa king jive]

i ain't scared of you $#@!s...

bernie mac.

[boknowstecmo]

Jimi Hendrix.

[TTomTerrific]

Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison.

Steve Jobs.

[t-shirt fan]

The Titanic...wut?...why y'all lookin' at me all funny?

[SPII]

Morrison

[King Neptune]

Dr. Drunkenstein

[SPII]

Dr. Drunkenstein

[sofa king jive]

Dr. Drunkenstein

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFXGwHsD_A

[Grammer Police]

Billy Mays

Say what you will about scientists uncovering the greatest mysteries of the universe, or politicians negotiating peace treaties between sworn enemies, Billy Mays gave us the ShamWow, or something like it. Also, his brother Willie made that awesome over-the-head catch in the 1954 World Series.

[sofa king jive]

Billy Mays

Say what you will about scientists uncovering the greatest mysteries of the universe, or politicians negotiating peace treaties between sworn enemies, Billy Mays gave us the ShamWow, or something like it. Also, his brother Willie made that awesome over-the-head catch in the 1954 World Series.

i was fully gonna say him, but i googled him and always thought he was the shamwow guy, the tweaker looking fool.

then i saw he looked like bob $#@!in vila and i guess he wasn't.

shamwow guy woulda been a tragedy, but bob vila lookin dood? not so much

[SPII]

shamwow guy woulda been a tragedy, but bob vila lookin dood? not so much

you're talking about vince. i think he's better known from slap chop than shamwow. but yeah, he damn near died: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/sh...es-more?page=0

[Grammer Police]

You're right. Billy Mays gave us Mighty Putty which in all honesty, let's be honest here, should have won him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

[TahoeHorn]

Emoryoid, Lincoln is my choice as well.

I also wish Kennedy had lived. I believe the GOP would have won in '64 had Kennedy lived. But even if not, we would have avoided all the martyr stuff - the Great Society legislation, the hero worship and Teddy's power.

On a lighter note I wonder if John Lennon had any greatness left, or if he would have worked with McCartney again. Lennon/McCartney were up there with Beethoven and Mozart, but by themselves Lennon was too acidic and McCartney was too sweet to be great.

Another ten years of productivity of Steve Jobs would be good.

[sofa king jive]

you're talking about vince. i think he's better known from slap chop than shamwow. but yeah, he damn near died: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/sh...es-more?page=0

yes. that $#@!in tweaker... he might be the only one that could cure the bath salts zombie apocalypse...

i never saw this here slap chop... sounds like a pimp maneuver

[sofa king jive]

You're right. Billy Mays gave us Mighty Putty which in all honesty, let's be honest here, should have won him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

AND shoulda got him laid

[Bernard]

Bernard

[wwshornfan]

Duane Allman.

The guy was #2 behind Jimi in the '09 Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists list and his technique, phrasing, and style are considered the standard to which an entire sub-genre of rock music and guitar playing style compares itself to.

All of that before being killed in a motorcyle crash a month before turning 25.

[Thor Goddhammer]

5 hookers in the Dallas area between 1979-82
Thich Quang Duc
Bob Ross

[sofa king jive]

5 hookers in the Dallas area between 1979-82
Thich Quang Duc
Bob Ross

I'm with you on Bob Ross... but Thich Quang Duc? c'mon, man... did you think he was $#@!in david blaine?

[Square Peg]

Most interesting in history is probably Henry son of Henry VIII and his first, Catholic wife. He died in infancy, resulting in Henry divorcing and chasing all those other wives, ending his alliance with Spain, the formation of the Church of England, no Elizabeth, etc.

It wouldn't just have affected England (and maybe England would still be Protestant today), the entire map of how the Western Hemisphere was settled would be totally different.

[Armybrat]

MLK - Then American race relations would probably have developed for the better,

Freddie Steinmark.

James Dean.

JFK Jr.

[UTCzech]

Bill HIcks

[Catpfish]

Charles Hardin Holley...otherwise known as Buddy Holly

[sneezy beltran]

You're right. Billy Mays gave us Mighty Putty which in all honesty, let's be honest here, should have won him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Oxiclean says hi......

[DoobieWah]

Obvious answer is obvious, but would have liked to see what Kennedy would have done with 8 years.

Like invading Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam?

In the last 100 years, I'll say MLK. Everything would be different and probably much better.

In history? I'll say Alexander. Conquered most of the known world and died at 32.