seems more like an umbrella effect

This movie is very twisted and out there but very entertaining to watch. The movie has events that Ashton Kutcher's character tries to fix and make the future different. Since he tries all the ways possible that don't work he realizes that he can't change the way things are and can't make them right. Just like the novels we just read nothing is fully correct or that everyone is fully happy. The way things are suppose to be and the way things are being changed aren't the same.
Fixing this he, Kutcher, needs to fix the whole problem. That problem is him. The fact the palm reader says he has no life line and he does not exsit is the point in the movie that things start to come together. I've seen this movie a couple times and this time I finally understood this part is key to Kutcher's character. When he tries and tries to fix things and nothing is working out the way he wants. He knows the only thing to do is to take himself out of the equation.
As we see in the last scene he kills himself to take himself from the equation. In Kindred, Dana needs to keep herself in the story and make sure she is still born. This is complete opposite of the Butterfly Effect. Everything happens for a reason and sometimes that reason isn't clear and Kutcher's character realized that with every time he went back to fix something another thing or person needed to be fixed. But really what needs to be fix was him. He sacrifices himself in a way to make his friends and family ultimately happier.