change the weather, still together when it ends...

[semimortal]

So I finished reading Alvarez's "In the Time of the Butterflies" last night and I loved it, it was utterly depressing, but beautiful nonetheless. So here's my question for the day, brought about by the book:

If you had the chance to change the world, but it meant dying -and before you could even see the results, would you do it?