Your banker made fun of you. That's not how life savings accounts work.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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None. You didn't save anything. You merely prolonged their suffering. Sicko.
None. God clearly wants her dead and you're just delaying the inevitable.
I would ask The Fray. They seemed to know a lot about How To Save A Life.
Under the premise of a life not being a commodity, then each time you save a specific life it counts as +1 life saved. Or if you're a bastard then who cares.
One plus the number of lives she saved each time you save her.
One. It's the same life, otherwise you could save infinite lives by care taking for a suicidal octogenarian
Unless they got pregnant in between
You usually can't get pregnant in your 80's lol
Oh i was more commenting on the OP's original question
You saved her life. Twice.
Doesn’t matter, MJ still friendzones Peter.
as Uncle Ben used to say, "With great power comes great entitlement"
The first save gets downgraded from a "life save" to a "6 months save". You have to return the hero crown they gave you.
If you Murderdeathkill someone, and they come back as a zombie, can you still get in trouble?
Very rare Demolition Man reference.
You saved one life twice. But is there any significance to this being 'her' rather than 'they'? Did you have a specific person in mind?
In some languages (i.e., italian and spanish), "person" is a feminine word (the word itself has ha gender, grammatically). Maybe OP isn't a native english speaker and they're just translating literally their thought, implying "someone" as "a person".
If it was 'he' nobody would have questioned it, which kinds gives me pause for thought.
It would have bothered me to the same degree, I don't know about you. I haven't seen anyone on Lemmy using 'he' as a 'gender neutral' pronoun yet, but I assure you I would correct it just as I regularly do in real life.
I try to notice it but often fail.
It's even more ambiguous given that it's specifically a "her" so if she was pregnant, it could complicate things depending on your view on whether or not a fetus is a life...
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Although a 'he' could also have a womb. It's interesting how OP has assigned a gender to this post, not really oddly specific but getting there.
If they caught some babies or other parasite in the meantime, you may have saved much more lives.
Under US law you can now murder that person twice, because of the Judd Act.
1 lives it's the same life but you saved that specific life twice