...everything and the value of nothing. —Oscar Wilde, definition of a cynic Isn’t health priceless? Some patients and physicians protest that it’s impossible to measure the priceless benefits of medical care with the crude yardstick of money. Regardless of whether people think it’s right or proper, their actions place a dollar value on human life when they make a decision to provide or deny treatment. If an 87-year-old patient in heart failure is transferred from a nursing home to a cardiac care unit for 10 days, the physician affirms through his or her actions that living another 6 months in a nursing home is worth more than $15,000. Immediately discharging this patient with instructions to take four aspirin every 6 hours affirms the physician’s belief that it’s not. Our actions place a dollar value on life, even if we choose not to recognize this fact. We live in a world of scarce resources and must make decisions within these limitations. We use money to place a value on (and a limit on the value of ) health, whether we wish to or not. Perhaps the most important role of economists in the CBA of health care is pointing out this reality. The task of putting a value on human life is difficult, to say the least. It’s relatively easy to tie specific dollar amounts to goods and services that are traded in the market, such as medical care, work time, drugs, and transportation. The process isn’t so clear-cut when it comes to putting a dollar value on life and death or pain...
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...Peter Freitas Mr. Watson EWRC English 12 08 November 2012 The Value of Life What is life worth? Everyone has a slightly different perspective on life. It can be determined by your personality or how you were brought up in your childhood. Nonetheless, life DOES have value. In today's world, people are valued by a cost consisting of physical dollars. Society shouldn't value people in currency of any kind. Instead, society should value people by how much they did in their lifetimes and money should only be involved to help their family of families to stay afloat, each unique to their situation. When it comes to the topic of the value of life, most of us will readily agree that life has some sort of value, in some sort of shape or form. Where this argument usually ends, however, is on the question of the “correct” way to value life in today's society. Whereas some are convinced that the end of life can be calculated mathematically with money, others maintain that the end of life is calculated by how much that person did for their community. “What Is Life Worth?”, authored by Amanda Ripley and published in TIME Magazine, questions “isn't it degrading to presume that money can make a family whole again? And what of the disparities? Is a poor man's life worth less than a rich man's?” Ripley is basically questioning how the courts ruling on compensation can value a person's life by what social class the person is in. Ripley overlooks what I consider and important point about valuing...
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...Value profiles play an important role in the likelihood of a person's making ethical decision... The term value has been defined as proscriptive belief that a specific end state of existence or a specific mode of conduct is preferred to an opposite end state or mode of conduct for living one's life (Kahle, 1983; Rokeach, 1968, 1973). My values in life center on the well being of my family and contribution to my work and society. I find my values to be aligned as a whole because we both are working toward establishing and nurturing respective professionals who contribute for the good of their society.. My values in life are to better financially support my family , Raise healthy children who have strong moral beliefs and respect for their family and society, contribute to my work and optimize it’s services to public utilities, and to be supportive to my old parents who have given me all that I am today. A better financial support for my family is important because this provides my children with the freedom to better study and be happier in life. I value my children to be healthy both physically and mentally so that they can contribute to their society. I believe that having strong moral characters will help my children ride through harder times much easier. I like to be more creative and efficient at my work and focus on customers and their needs. I value taking best care of my old parents and attend to their needs as much as possible. I think that if we respect our...
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...Why value life? Life is full of happiness, joy, peace, glory and love. It is the greatest gift one can receive from God. We live not only for ourselves but also for others, specially our families and loved ones. Life is full of happiness as well as sorrow, problems as well as solutions, kindness as well as selfishness, but that’s what makes life challenging. As the quotation says, “Live life to the fullest.” We must enjoy every day, every minute and every second of our existence. We cannot bring back the time that has been gone, but we can enjoy what we have now. Valuing life is like valuing yourself. If you value yourself you also value others. We didn’t beg nor ask for it, but God gave it to us, our life, our family, and our friends. And one way of saying thanks to Him is by loving, protecting and most of all, the contentment that we know someone loves us. In that way, we appreciate and love what God has created and given us. No one has the right to neither take away someone’s life nor kill themselves. It is not right to kill people, for everyone has their freedom to live and enjoy life, and no one must commit suicide just because of problems they cannot handle. It only depends on us, on how we look into things and find the solutions ourselves. Valuing our life and other’s life is the only thing we can present to God when we reach the altar of heaven; it is a proof that we appreciated and love the life, the experience and joy that has been lent to us while we are...
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...One major question has been around for years and years but no matter the progress made on this question the people of this nation will always have their own opinions. The value of life, does it really have a value or is one's life priceless? Who is in any position to answer that other than our own conscience. “Forensic economists testify on the value of a life every day. They can even tell you the average valuation of an injured knee (about $200,000). But until now, the public at large has not had to reckon with the process and its imperfections.”(Ripley 1). Jobs based around evaluating the worth of an individual's physical body parts seems quite the job if one likes to be looked at with shame and anger. Many feel they need the money to repair themselves mentally when in all reality, the money does nothing other than mask a bigger problem. Life in the United States has been taken away at the dozens throughout the nation. Not only on few accounts but on many that have no explanation when asked about. Lives need to be cherished more than any amount of money that is “awarded” to those who have lost loved ones or those who have been deemed crippled by the fact that the one nation, we all want to love and call home, has been failing us, the people, left and right....
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...Christianity views all life as precious, but human life as sacred. This conviction informs and determines the Christian's attitude toward nature and toward human beings. God is the author of life and therefore life is precious (see Ps. 36:9). When God created this planet, He sup plied it with light, soil, water, air, and seeds (Gen. 1:3-11). All seed is infused with potential for generation, growth, and reproduction; the Life-giver endowed organic matter with life. God is the sustainer and owner of life; therefore life is precious. God did not abandon His creation when He completed His creative work. Scripture teaches that He is an active sustainer of life (Ps. 104:29, 30). Through the laws of nature instituted at Creation and through humanity's stewardship over the earth, God sustains life indirectly. But the Bible underlines God's active and direct involvement, and the total dependence of living creatures on His activity. Life is set apart for a special purpose, and so it is precious. At the time of Creation God established a delicate and well-balanced biosystem on earth. According to Genesis 1:29, 30, green plants grow from inorganic soil and serve as food for animals; fruits and seeds are given to humans for food. Not one organic living thing exists without reason or purpose, nor is any living thing independent of everything else. Yet life's value does not lie simply in mutual usefulness or interconnectedness. Rather, harmony and unity in nature serve as witnesses...
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...Positive moral values are important because they allow you to have an overall feeling of peace and joy. Moral values can give meaning and purpose to your life. You are able to direct your behavior towards beneficial and fulfilling activities. When you live your life according to moral values that are based on honesty, compassion, courage, modesty, and forgiveness, then you can also form positive bonds with other people. Incorporating the moral value of honesty in your life make you trustworthy. You will have a clear conscience because you can respect yourself. The people that you come into contact with will be able to count on you to be fair and sincere. Your integrity will allow you to advance in both your personal and professional life. There are more opportunities for you to fully experience life when you are an honest person. In addition to honesty, you also need to incorporate the moral value of compassion into your life. Compassion allows you to have sympathy for the misfortunes of other people. It also motivates you to want to give them any type of assistance that you can. Compassion results in your having feelings of mercy towards other people. When you have compassion as a moral value people are more likely to put their trust in you because you will be non-judgmental of their circumstances. Thirdly, the moral value of courage gives you the determination to face anything that impedes your progress through life. You will also be able to overcome any obstacles because...
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...Life is but a span, treasure! Value! Always, I do not understand why should pass such a life every day. It seems that every one is such, so I accept even without refusing and resisting. Everyday when I go home, I throw myself into the bed, and at the same time inexplicable sense of emptiness spreads. A voice roars in my heart, “I am unhappy, I do not like the present life”. With an exhaustion to sleep, the life is or so in tomorrow morning up, over and over again. However, one day one of my friends tell me that tired, just rest; heart heavy, just calm. Growing up, being mature, many things will see through. Tired, sad, just squat down, and give yourself a hug. Do not expect anyone else to sympathise with you, have mercy on you. Sobbing, tears are your own; hurting, no one can experience instead of you. You should be strong even going through pains and tears, and you can also tolerantly go on. Since, life is your own life. “Life is but a span, treasure! Value!” is a sentence much found on the lips of this my friend. So short, but so meaningful! Yes, throughout a person’ life, being happy is a way of spending a day, while unhappy also a way of passing a day. Therefore, let us happy now; Do what you want to do and love what you want to love; Remember something have to be remembered, while forget what should be forgotten; Change things possibly being changed, and accept what is mutable. We can calmly face anything, and actively grasp any chances. Do not excessively demand;...
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...How should the value of life be measured? Should it be the way the government decided for the September 11 victims? Or should we value the life by how the people lived and what they did throughout their life? Many people do not know what the value of life is. September 11 2001 the country had a terrible attack which many lives were taken. The families of theses victims were devastated losing a loved one. In this situation the government decided to give money to the family members of the victims. “ The courts started to put a dollar value on a life after death.” (What is life worth? Amanda Ripley).However, how much money is someone’s life worth? According to the article “what is life worth” the government believed the families should receive money based on what they would of made throughout their lifetime. So if this lady worked for higher part of the company and made more money than your husband who was just a janitor does her family deserve more money than yours? “First, the government will estimate how much a victim would have earned over his or her lifetime had the plans never crashed. That means the brokers family will qualify for a vastly higher award than a windows washers family.”(Feinberg)...
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...Everybody on this planet values their own life to some extent and some more than others. The value of life is weighed by each person's perspective and personal experiences. If someone had a hard time with the majority of their life then they will not value their life as much as a person that is happy and content with their own life. Hamlet, a fictional character, values life subjectively and only weighs the value of life by the bad experiences of life. Since he lost the love of his life and his father at a young age this makes someone seem like they have nothing else to live for. Love and happiness is what every human being craves for because it is entwined into our DNA. Hamlet contemplated his value of life which almost caused him to commit...
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...“What Are The Values of Life” HLT 305 With the main principles of ethics, the most important ideals that the author feels strongly about are the equality and justice. He feels that no matter who you are, where you came from and how much money you have; everyone should receive the same amount of care and help. He has seen so many news stories that people are denied care for low income and others that could not received help because of their religion and it baffles him that in this industry, it should not matter at all. He wanted to become a doctor so that he could help people, but as time has change, he’s seen the world transform into a money hungry business, and this saddens him deeply. But that just means that he will work harder not to let these things change and influence his views and more morals. To him, worth is not a dollar amount but the impact you have on others. What is it that you can contribute to the world, how can you make a different in the environment around you. Anyone can hire a doctor, or a medical expert to advise them on health issues, but only a moral person will approach that situation with their highest ethical values. The most virtuous qualities are the ones that make us human, and that’s the need to help others with all aspects like money, religion, and laws set aside. He thinks this quality is something that every medical expert should have, and what will make this domain a better place. The vice that he sees that has some...
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...Value of the Systems Development Life Cycle Lisa Larkin BSA/376 March 30, 2015 Deborah Marshall Value of the Systems Development Life Cycle Every organization can benefit from the use of a formal Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to develop and manage projects. This paper will describe the components of the formal SDLC process, and discuss how each component is used to provide a framework for a project. The SDLC process involves the project manager, system analyst, and developer. Their roles are an integral part of the SDLC process and will determine whether a solution is developed or discarded. There are four basic elements which comprise the SDLC process; project planning, analysis, design, and implementation. Regardless of the scope or size of a project the SDLC provides a guide to develop a solution to a problem using technology (Satzinger, Jackson & Burd, 2009). Project planning defines the specific problem and identifies the scope the new system will address. During the project planning phase feasibility of the project is determined. A schedule or timeline, as well as a staff will also be developed. Resources will be organized, milestones will be identified, and control procedures will be put in place during this phase. Budgets for the project will also be determined at this time. The next element of the SDLC process is analysis. The analysis phase of the SDLC is used to gather information from the end users and learn as much as possible about...
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...What are the Values in Life? Grand Canyon University Legal and Ethical Principles in Healthcare HLT-305 Professor Chornick January 10, 2014 What are the Values in Life? I think the answers to these questions are going to vary quite a bit from person to person. To me an ideal is what motivates a person and makes them who they are. The most important to me, would have to be allowing other people the respect and dignity I feel human beings should get. I think keeping as many options as possible open to oneself in life is important as well. The distinction between right and wrong, and good and evil is also important to me. Worth isn’t necessarily how much money or how many assets a person can accumulate. Worth to me is the do’s and don’ts, and the shoulds and shouldn’ts I live by in order to be accepted by others (Saban, 2013). If a person feels good about what they have accomplished, their worth increases. If a person is a little insecure about themnselves, their self worth might tend to be a little on the low side. According to Aristotle, a virtue is something learned through practice at a very young age (Sparknotes, 2013). I think some of the important virtues a person should possess are friendliness, accountability for one’s actions, compassion, dignity, reverence, meaning the sacredness of human life, nobility or having high moral standards, and understanding. I remember reading somewhere once that if admirable character traits are called virtues, then their opposites...
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...Placing Value on Life: Is One More Valuable Than Another? Cheanel Nolden Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility SOC 120 Professor Elizabeth Tinch August 15, 2013 A woman lies in the hospital in labor in January 2007. After more than twenty hours, the doctor and several nurses come in to speak to the woman’s family. Her blood pressure is very high, and she is at risk of having a dry birth. All of this is further complicated by the fact that the baby has a hole in his heart, and has lungs that have not developed properly. The doctor speaks to the woman’s grandmother. She wants to know, in the event of a C-section that could go awry, which patient should be saved – the twenty-four year old mother, or her still unseen baby boy. The grandmother speaks with no hesitation, stating that everything possible should be done to save her granddaughter, meaning that the child could die. Through her tears, the mother begs for just the opposite, pleading for her child’s life to be saved, even if it is at the expense of her own. From her hospital bed, she tries her best to change her grandmother’s mind. Her grandmother firmly maintains that the woman may have other children in the future, and that if she dies today, the grandmother would possibly be left to raise a young child in her old age, and that child may have a disability. Her blood pressure continues to rise as she is overcome with fear and hurt at the prospect of losing this child that she has...
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...Life,is something a lot of people take for granted. The lottery was created to reboots everyone’s mind,and make them appreciate the little things in life and to teach them many lessons. To begin with,Warner states that the people in the village should accept ,and appreciate what you have”Nothings good enough for them.” He concluded that people always want more. They are greedy,selfish,and always want something that someone else has. To continue,Warner shares that he has been doing the lottery for 77 year. “Seventy-Seventh year I been in the lottery,” He shares that to people to tell them that only luck has kept him here. That you should treasure your time on earth. You never known when when you could run out of time. “Nancy and Bill Jr....
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