What Is The Value Of Life

Should people put the value of life into monetary value or should life be kept solely as an emotional quantity? People and societies throughout the ages have been trying to answer the problem of putting the value of life into terms of dollar bills. The ancient Egyptians buried their dead with all of their worldly belongings. They believed a person’s monetary worth on Earth was over, and they should take all of that earthly worth with them to the afterlife. Modern day Americans are different from the Egyptians. Today people believe that the families of the dead should be compensated for “their” loss.

Life, the existence of an individual human being. All humans have the desire to “exist” as one would say, to become influential in this world. But is it not possible to exist once one is gone? Famous film director Alfred Hitchcock argues that characters are more important dead than alive. In this life, in order to become important or even cared about, one must die. Death has become the key to success because everyone misses those who are gone. Literary work such as Macbeth, A Lesson Before Dying, Are You Worth More Dead Than Alive? and, How the King of Pop Made 1.5 Million, have proven that not only characters but humans hold more value once they are dead.

Everyone has been led to believe that all lives are equal, and they are however, in terms of monetary value, lives are not equal. Aside the ethics about assigning value to the live it is still done. The justice system tries to resolve this loss by using unjust means. Life should not be given a value in any sort of currency, it is is not right as there is no way to put a price on something as priceless as life. Even if the life of a person is affected by an illness, their worth should not be decreased. All lives are equal, some people need more help than others and it should be given if and when deserve such help. The value of life has been contemplated throughout history, such as Shakespeare's (1599) play, hamlet; in which Hamlet’s

The article “What is a Life Worth?” By Amanda Ripley gives support to Feinberg on the issue of placing a value on a human life. Ripley includes evidence of two different social class families the Sparacio family and the Fields family. Sparacio family included a current trader and a part-time school psychologist as the occupation of the parents. While the Fields family only had one income which was from a security guard. Even though the Sparacio family holds a higher social class than the Fields family, The Fields were awarded $444,010 due to having three more children than the twin two-year-old sparacio family which were only awarded a small compensation of $138,000. The widow Cheri Sparacio states “This was just one screw-up after another”

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.

In this case, I consider the utilitarian versus the sacred view of life. There is a social role of people based on their profession, such as engineers, physicians, members of the clergy, etc. This brings up the question of our importance. Are we important only as long as we are making a contribution to society, or is there something valuable about our humanity? What is moral maximizes utility, and with important individuals who contribute and benefit society choosing to end their lives is not right. Humans have a duty to contribute to the wellbeing society for their lives. We live in a social contract with one another and our skills, our utility should be used to the fullest

Commonly you believe that life is better than death, but when a high quality of life and an individual’s desire to live are no longer possible, that is no longer the case. C. The debate about life is trying to answer many questions: “Is life something that can be controlled by humans? When is life no longer worth living?” D. What is life?

In numerous circumstances, people consistently overlook the values of human worth and dignity. They push them out of the way for who they are and segregate their very existence. In the Grapes of Wrath, along the Joads journey to California, some are not treated for who they are as individuals in their way of life. The same happens in the present culture. In today's society, the value of human permanence remains a never-ending quandary.

What is your life worth to you? How do you assess value in your life? These might be questions you’ve thought about before, or they may not be. Do you view your worth as a dollar estimate or do you look at your value on emotional terms? In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we see a very contemptuous outlook on life, from an emotional standpoint. Rather than overcoming his troubles, he wallows in his own heartache. Compared to the actions of Roger Ebert and Steve Jobs, Hamlet is a foil. In times of tragedy it is important to realize what truly matters to you, and not what seems to be important for the moment. We come to understand this critical concept through Ebert and Jobs. Not only that, but we also come to realize the idea of assigning value to someone’s life from a financial standpoint is unjust, because our true value lies within the relationships we develop and the legacy we leave behind.

Is it morally correct to put a price tag on a life? Your initial thought was probably no, lives should not be categorized into a monetary value, but take a moment to dive deeper into all of the research on this topic, it soon becomes apparent that it is necessary to apply a price figure for each of our lives as some people are essentially worth more than others. Since the beginning of time, people have been debating this topic, taking longer than normal, after all, it is a sensitive subject. Due to the sensitivity of this matter, it has taken us a plethora of years to find a balance between what is morally correct to give someone for their late loved one and what will not put the government into a deeper debt.

After reviewing the research article, I found it interesting that individuals use religion as a coping mechanism when threatened with the thought of own death or mortality. This information makes me question if people subscribe to a religion for the right reasons. Do they genuinely believe in God, or is it because they need a coping mechanism when faced with the thought of death or personal struggle. Naturally, there

We are all here for one reason, to find out what we are all really here for. The value of

Atheistic people believe in nothing like a god or a higher being. “The Atheistic people do not believe in a spiritual being at all. They believe that there is nothing out there on the other side but death” (Beyer). Many like the fact of not believing, they think that they can just live life normal without a religion to hold them back on what they are \about to do. Also these people do not worry about death or what they are going to do in life with a religion, they just do not

Most religious people believe they are morally, politically, and socially better than people that do not worship a god, such as atheists. Even though, it is a false statement because many religious followers of “God” tend to be hypocrites towards their own religion. Just because a person decides not to believe in a certain deity it does not mean they are any less of a person than those who do have someone to call God. People that follow god are not better than atheists because the holy wars were caused by religion, they tend to break many of the rules in the bible, and no matter how many times someone if forgiven of their sins in church, that person’s wrong doings will not be forgotten by the victim.

Though our society has adapted and developed, inequality remains prevalent all around the world. Our society assigns value to human live based on ethnicity and gender. Currently around the world there are over 30 million slaves in which 60,000 are in the United States. Even though slavery has been abolished in nearly every country many people still measure the value of individuals in cents and dollars. Should life be calculated in terms of money? How should we as a society assign value to a persons life? I personally believe that you can't assign a price to someones life and you shouldn’t It’s both politically and morally unjust.