Deceased/presumed dead/missing people you wish you could talk to or could have talked to - Seance wishlisting, perhaps

[Sprig of Parsley]

Title is fairly self-explanatory. No limit on number, doesn't have to be a specific named person. Can be for any reason, really - knowing the truth about a historic event that's likely been "creatively reinterpreted" for history books, finding out their secret strawberry jam recipe, shooting the breeze about current events, take your pick.

I'd personally like to just kind of see if Nikola Tesla lives up to his legend.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

My dad.
Peter Lorre and Robin Williams, they're my favorites.
Christopher Marlowe, to see what he was really up to/believed.

 

[KeyserBroze]

I'd personally like to just kind of see if Nikola Tesla lives up to his legend.

Seeing as OP picked well i'll have to go with Alan Turing, it would be an understatement to say he had a unique way of perceiving the world around him.

 

[PT 940]

I never really knew my grandparents very well. My dad was taking medication a few years ago that made him rather chatty (he's a very quiet person) and he started telling me all of this stuff I never knew about them and I started realizing how much I'm like them in a lot of ways. All this time I felt like I wasn't like the rest of my family but when I learned about my grandparents, there was a lot about myself that suddenly made a lot of sense. No telling how much more I could learn if I talked to them.

 

[Black Waltz]

my grandma on my dad's side
I only talked to her once and then she died of cancer
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I wish I could talk to her more

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

The Elephant Man. Dude needed a friend.

 

[CheezzyMach]

Stan Lee

Thuy Trang * She was the best Yellow Power Ranger in my opinion *

Robin Williams

my grandfather * he died when I was very young and I barely remember him *

 

[The Manglement]

This isn't really talking, but I'd love to get into the mile high club with Amelia Earhart.

 

[PL 001]

My maternal grandma. She was a rock in my life during a dark period and I love(d) her dearly.

A friend of mine who lost his life when we were 17.

As for people that don't invoke feels, H.L. Mencken, Harlan Ellison and Art Bell.

 

[UE 558]

Bob so he can coach me in Zelda 2

 

[Joey Caruso]

@Super Collie

 

[break these cuffs]

Terry

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

smokedaddy

But for real, probably Patton. He was just a bad motherfucker. One of the most hard charging and inventive commanders to ever live.
"Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!"

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

Probably various relatives on my paternal side of my family, I would like to have gotten a better sense of their life in the "old country".

 

[Marco Fucko]

I'd love to have a heart to heart with Stirner behind closed doors. How much of his own shit does he believe, and what does he think of being such a colossal shitposter he immortalized himself both through Marx bitching about him and by influencing Junger and possibly Nietzche?

 

[Draza]

My grandparents
Zeljko Raznatovic
Slobadan Milosevic

 

[Eryngium]

I can think of a few just short of 6 million whose stories I would like to hear.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

• Stephen Hawking
• Possibly Hypatia of Alexandria. Must suck to do maths only to die from getting skinned alive with seashells.

 

[Just A Butt]

Ben Franklin was a notorious poon-hound. Partying with him would be cool.

Jim Henson, 'cause I'm sure he has some amazing stories.

Someone said Tesla already, but I have a lot of questions about his bird-wife I'd like to ask.

Ronald Lee Ermey, most famous for being the Drill Sergeant in Full Metal Jacket. Not only was he a total badass, he also seemed like a genuinely nice guy. When he wasn't yelling at retards.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

Philip Seymour Hoffman

my favorite actor.