Life Vs Value Of Life

What is the value of life? The answer varies from person to person. Everyone has different perspectives and morals.people have different different experiences that can shape and bend their views on life and how they perceive it. The trials, tribulations, and trauma people go through can impact their thought process and how they see and value their life and the lives around them.

I believe that, essentially, life consists of a series of choices. A grouping of these choices in one direction or another makes us who we are, and ultimately we have control over our lives. What makes one person different from another is his own set of choices. When going through life’s motions, we develop certain worldviews and ideas and values to live by. We develop an opinion of what makes a person “great.” In the well-known essay “Self-Reliance”, Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a beautiful way of approaching these choices, and he reveals a very inspiring set of values centralized around going through life answering only to yourself. I love the way Emerson evaluates the society we live

A person’s worth should not be defined by one’s financial assets. Through the words of author Amanda Ripley in “What is a life Worth?” the reader is introduced to the concept of determining life’s abstract value into actual dollars

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein. Life should be viewed as a positive because everyone is only given one lifetime to do what they would like to. Although few people interpret life as a positive aspect such as Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, there is also other ways people see the value of life. Including Hamlet from William Shakespeare’s book Hamlet, he views life as a complication, and Amanda Ripley, who views life in a financial point of view. When faced with the perspective of life, many people see the value of life in a black or white manner but there is also a financial perspective as well. All of these views offer an interesting perspective regarding the value of life.

“No one knows you better than you know yourself.” This fabled quote implies a sense of of self-awareness for an individual, and in a way, it passively rejects the societal norms and outside judgements towards that individual. However, the world seeks a systematic approach to determining the capability and worth of individuals. This “system,” whether imposed by the government, social norms, or society itself, will always create problems for individuals because of the individuality of each human being. This makes a “perfect model” impossible. The next question is “why?” Why do people depend on validation from such an imperfect system when it only causes problems? Is there any other type of worth that rewards more than “systematic validation”, perhaps capable of connecting to the uniqueness of the individual on a personal level? Worth is more meaningful when determined by the individual rather than by a system because true worth comes from within, as opposed to that of the fickle outside world.

When it comes to the topic of the value of life. Most of us will readily agree that there is no amount of money that can equal the loss for a loved one.. Where this agreement usually ends however, is on the question of whether or not the government has the right to assign a dollar value on the human life. While some are convinced that a dollar value is enough other believe that there is no dollar value that can compensate for their lost loved one. Society should base the value of life based on that person's future income in expected life to live.

"To be or not to be, that is the question". This is probably one of the most famous soliloquies. You could say that Hamlet sounds like a broken record with the whole suicide thing. However, he just might be moving on here. After all, instead of obsessing about whether or not to kill himself, he is exploring the reason why people in general don't commit suicide. When it comes down to it, he is talking about you, us and everyone else out there. Life is worth because we are experience every single moment. And there are some special moment that define who we are.

Nevertheless, in This is Water by David Wallace, there is a reference to that the world does not involve around just one person, there is more to life than just one’s life. However, that is true in the society that we live in today, many young adults and others alike display such an attitude.

The value of life. GONE. He feels that he has no reason to stay alive. For Elie Wiesel and the other victims of the Holocaust, they assigned absolutely no value to human life, because in retrospect, they were dehumanized. Also, in Hamlet’s Soliloquy, he is struggling internally whether or not he should be alive or dies.

The author Janne Teller once stated in her novel Nothing that; “The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning.” This statement directly reflects the central criticism in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The death of a king, and the necessity for revenge introduces many complex themes throughout the play as a whole. One of the most prevalent, the nature of death.

’s course on it’s own without trying to change it. This moment is when Hamlet first started to understand the meaning that life and why we should value and appreciate our lives. At this scene, Hamlet’s conscious then decides to understand the mistakes that he has made and face the consequences, but not be afraid because that’s how his fate ended up to be. Secondly, Hamlet understands the value that life gives because he told Horatio not to kill himself.

Both Hamlet and Kenneth Feinberg dealt with the emotional suffering and viewed life in a different perception .Hamlet was suffering emotionally, and ask himself “to be or not to be- that is the question” meaning should he take his life away or fight back. His dad had just been killed by his uncle and and his mother was about to marry the killer of her husband. He asks himself does life really have a value and worth living when you are suffering emotionally. Hamlet was wealthy, yet this did not enough for him to say life had a value. Fienberg was just a man chosen from congress to give money to those (9/11 victims families) and find the best possible way to help those family, after losing their love ones. $7 billion dollars was given

That is the question—Whether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them?”(3,1,57-61). Hamlet asks the question if it is better to be alive or dead because he is confused and does not know exactly what he want to do or if he should be alive. Also, if he should be staying alive just to put up with all the problems he is having or if he should just fight them and handle the problems he is going through.

Hamlet also believes that people refrain from suicide since it is inconclusive whether living or dying is nobler. Hamlet has this exact thought asking, “ Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them” (III, I, 57-60). Hamlet does not know if it is nobler to continue to suffer through all that life throws your way or if it is nobler to fight and end the suffering. If it were known which was nobler it would have a major impact on Hamlet's decision around suicide (that is since he contemplated this

Shakespeare believes that without any purpose in existence, life can be worthless. An example that portrays how Shakespearean characters question life and death is illustrated in Hamlet’s soliloquy, To Be Or Not To Be. Hamlet begins his speech by saying; “To be or not to be,