The following Paragraph is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox
The grandfather paradox is a proposed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_paradox of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel first described by the science fiction writer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (Future Times Three). The paradox is described as following: the time traveller went back in time to the time when his grandfather had not married yet. At that time, the time traveller kills his grandfather, and therefore, the time traveller is never born when he was meant to be. If he is never born, then he is unable to travel through time and kill his grandfather, which means he would be born, and so on.
Now what i want to know is that is their any event that you would risk your existence to prevent or even witness with the outcome been you die regardless of if you prevent the event or witness it.
I guess you could say that what event would you be willing to commit suicide for.
Take the Hindenburg you want to witness it first hand but in doing so it results in your death or you want to prevent it but again it results in your death.
For me it would be the birth of life on earth just so i know that as i decompose my genes an dna will be getting spread throughout life. (Prometheus style)