How Much is A New Life Actually Worth?
Seeing a life tagged with a price is acutely painful and personal experience for me. Especially a young life. Two days before our trial was to start, which was also a day before James' fourth birthday, my layer called with a settlement offer from the defense. He had forewarned many times the discussion of money and my son's life was inevitable. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/31/india.fire/index.html?iref=topnews In India over the weekend, five newborns who were being treated for jaundice were burned to death in their incubators as a result of faulty electrical wiring. The news brief ends with the disclosure that the families of each of these deceased newborns will receive $2,000 in compensation. That equates to approximately $60,000 in the U.S. Average per capita income is about $24000 in the U.S. and $800 in India (Delaney). This is a tragic story that will give pause to the reader. But what does it mean? How does this relate to you? Does it even matter? Would y...