Value of Life

Should people put the value of life into monetary value or should life be kept only 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 bill. Today people believe that the families of the dead should be compensated for their loss. Add more to this

It is true that life is a valuable commodity much like a diamond. But unlike a diamond, life has no set monetary value. But today's government is trying to change that. After the tragedies of September 11, 2002, the federal government started a federal fund to help the victims and families of victims of the attacks. This fund would give priority to people who were injured in the attacks, then to the spouse, and then to the parents. Your husband dies and now you just lost your income, and the government is going to pay you for your loss. This sound great that the time, but once deep down in the federal fund, it not so pronounced. To figure out how much money a person will receive form this federal fund is determined by a multi-step process. First they figure out how much an individual would have earned if there were no strike. That would mean that a lawyer's family would earn far more than a family of a custodian in the federal fund standers. Is it true that a lawyer's is worth more to society than a custodian?