Societies Way to Value the Human Life

The way society should assign value to a person life should be priceless because their life should be valued off of their accomplishments and not off monetary things. Throughout the text that I read I understood the fact that everybody values the human life differently. In reality, society doesn't have to assign a certain value to a human's life because our instincts and those things we "want" already assigns a value to us. The value of a human's life shouldn't be determined off of monetary things but off of their accomplishments.

The Value of a Human Life: $129,000" is an article I found on the TIME magazine website. As I was reading this article I found it very interesting because they are putting an actual price on a humans life. Also I found it interesting because although I want to believe that a human life is priceless it isn't. According to the article one year of a human life is worth $50,000. It was stated that "Medicare was only assigning the dollar figure to their patients who lives may sound crass", I don't think a value to their life just because they are on Medicare or their life is on its way to an end.

Giving a human life the money value is just saying that once the money is gone they are worthless which isn't true. It's not true because they could have done many things for people and accomplished The value of a human's life shouldn't be determined off of monetary things but off of their accomplishments.