Is a life human life worth any amount of money?

Talmudic and biblical law sets the price of a life based on the going rate for an equivalent slave on the open market rate (assuming there are slave markets). In point fact, the expected rate of damages for accidentally destroying a fetus was calculated this way in Talmudic law. As slavery was common to all civilizations until the advent of racial identification, this isn't entirely surprising.

Now that slavery's moral status has been (correctly) updated to reflect the abhorrence we all feel at anyone claiming right of possession to our own flesh, bones, sweat, and blood, the financial value of a human life has been left open, and "incalculable" as a result.

However, considering the amount of stress and threat to life that having no livelihood puts upon a person, and weighing the vast ocean of humanity against a single life, then it should be safe to say that a human life is *not* worth more than the total annual GDP of a small country. But certainly more than a lifetime's salary.

Is a life human life worth any amount of money?

~~~ That would depend on whom you ask!

All 'value' exists in the (judgmental) eye (imagination) of the beholder!

Ask a monk or a capitalist, and there are two very different answers.

All 'answers' are equally true!

who's to determine the cost of a human life and it's worth

no not you not me not any politician or religion it is priceless ^ up-vote this

its ashamed how most major conflicts had to result in so many lives lost.. so must wasted potential and for what!?

No amount of money can match the value of a human life because of its dynamic and transcendental potential.

This answer of course assumes that the value needs to be seen from the perspective of our own species rather than any other larger or narrower one.

Only slaves kill for money. Real tough guys like myself kill out of pure anger, why is anger shunned these days??? Anger is a man's thing (unless it's over something feminine like jealousy or intolerance) and I'm willing to prove any lame veteran that they're not so tough.

If you are seeking a new and different explanation of the truth that makes sense, search for TRUTH CONTEST in Google and click the 1st result, then click on THE PRESENT and read what it says. This is truth you can check.

To an art connoisseur a Picasso is worth tens millions. To a pawn shop it is barely worth the canvas.

Whom are you selling me to?

yes i think money is an important part of life,but there is not any thing.there are so many important thing seperate than mony in life

It depends on how we assign values to "Matter". While praying many devotees assign lot of importance, glory, values, virtues etc to a picture-god or stone-god. Because they have so much of implicit faith, unshakable belief and unflinching devotion to that "Matter" (God). It mainly depends on devotion and the honesty, sincerity and earnestness of our prayers. In general our life is "valuable" and "invaluable" both.

No, money is worthless as its only a piece of paper.