by Jacob Morris

Created on: March 05, 2009   Last Updated: March 19, 2009

The Value of Life

Life can be valued by the experiences that you gain, it can be measured by the people you meet, the accomplishments that you have finished. But can you really measure a person's life based on values that fluctuates by person? When a price is put on something it needs to be on a universal system and not based on the heart of the person handing the grieving family the money. The United States Government has set up a system that offers a lot of grievance packages for families suffering from crimes, and multiple companies offer life insurance policies. These ways to value life are quite often right on.

People feel that no matter what you do in this world that you should be given the same amount of money regardless. But is that a impartial way to treat the life of a hard worker. If you take a person who has worked all his or her life to make their family better and is killed tragically, should a person who has contributed little to society get the same amount of money? The answer is no. Why should the homeless mans family who takes more than he gives be given more money than that of the family who the man worked relentlessly at. As the system presently stands, based on the number of children with each child worth an exact amount, a marriage scale, an income rate and a set grievance assessment. With these rates the homeless mans family is still given thousands of dollars, but the working man gets more because he contributed more to society and gave more than he asked for.

Others feel that the system shouldn't give any money out unless they have life insurance. But is that fair? Should the family scarcely getting by be given zilch when their only source of income tragically perishes while the rich man in the penthouse's family is given hundreds of thousands of dollars? The landlord of the apartment complex the lower income family is in will still want his rent regardless. That money given to the family may just be able to keep them in their house and get them back on their feet to move forward with their lives. Not to mention is it fair that those who cannot afford the disgraceful prices for a funeral have to desecrate their loved one more by having to bury them in a dirt lot with only a wooden stake to mark the grave. So many people have many different views on topics such as this but it should be said that the system as it stands takes care of the job as best as any other system can. There needs to be order, there needs to be a set system so not one person can feel they have been beaten by the system.

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