How much for your life?

[Agent Smith]

An American firm once pegged a person's life at $10,000,000. This came out of cost-benefit analysis for sticking biohazard labels on drums of toxic chemicals. Google for more.

In a certain country which shall remain unnamed, you can hire a hitman for $6.00.

Then there's this movie I saw about this guy with terminal cancer who takes out a life insurance policy and tries multiple times to get himself killed in an accident so that his family can benefit.

Furthermore, who doesn't value himself/herself? The door's open for self-valuation. May be you think your life is worth $1,000,000,000 or perhaps not. Be honest, what was the most you spent on yourself? Did you think twice before you bought for yourself that car.

Question, random: How much do you think a sheikh (Allahu Akbar) would pay you for your life? Would you accept (the offer)?

[promethean75]

i dunno my worth in currency but i can give u a general idea about how much i value myself; I wouldn't sacrifice my own life to save a million people. or even a billion.

[Impenitent]

what are you going to do with a million dollars after you are dead?

-Imp

[Agent Smith]

Some people's vocal cords, even legs, are more valuable than others' lives. Google insurance policies.

[Agent Smith]

i dunno my worth in currency but i can give u a general idea about how much i value myself; I wouldn't sacrifice my own life to save a million people. or even a billion.

I intelligo.

[Agent Smith]

what are you going to do with a million dollars after you are dead?

-Imp

Good question, but that's just one possibility you're considering.

[Gary Childress]

It's an interesting question. I think Impenitant hits the mark with his answer above. For no amount of money would I voluntarily take my own life because money isn't an instant reward or even an intrinsic good. It's an instrumental good that can only be used toward aquiring other instrumental goods that ultimately culminate in the intrinsic goods of pleasure or happiness. If someone put me through some kind of unbearable torture for whatever reason and I end up begging for them to terminate my life, then that might be a different matter. However, if I can never enjoy the potential "reward" of taking my life then it is by definition not a "reward". Things might change if I were hooked up to an instant dopamine release while engaged in the process of killing myself. Say the more vigorously I destroy myself the more prominent the dopamine spike.

Other than that if I loved someone so much that I wanted to help them out with money in the form of life insurance, then it becomes a market matter of at what point would the amount of money I'm getting for my loved one not be enough to justify the taking of my own life in order to get it for them.

[Agent Smith]

It's an interesting question. I think Impenitant hits the mark with his answer above. For no amount of money would I voluntarily take my own life because money isn't an instant reward or even an intrinsic good. It's an instrumental good that can only be used toward aquiring other instrumental goods that ultimately culminate in the intrinsic goods of pleasure or happiness. If someone put me through some kind of unbearable torture for whatever reason and I end up begging for them to terminate my life, then that might be a different matter. However, if I can never enjoy the potential "reward" of taking my life then it is by definition not a "reward". Things might change if I were hooked up to an instant dopamine release while engaged in the process of killing myself. Say the more vigorously I destroy myself the more prominent the dopamine spike.

Other than that if I loved someone so much that I wanted to help them out with money in the form of life insurance, then it becomes a market matter of at what point would the amount of money I'm getting for my loved one not be enough to justify the taking of my own life in order to get it for them.

Glad you found something to comment on mon ami! I'm most pleased with myself.