THE VALUE OF BODY & SOUL
In the 1985 the International Herald-Tribune carried an article by William R. Greer of the New York Times Service on the value of human life. He began with a chemical analysis of the human body: Five pounds of calcium, one and one half pounds of phosphorous, nine ounces of potassium, six ounces of sulfur, six ounces of sodium, an ounce of magnesium, and less than an ounce each of iron, copper, and iodine. All of this was valued at $8.37 by a professor at the Illinois Medical School in Chicago. But a man told the Los Angeles Police Department he was offered $5,000 to kill a person. An attorney says that the families of victims of air crashes can expect to get between $300,000 and $500,000. The Federal Aviation Administration figures a human life at $650,000; the Environmental Protection Agency at between $400,000 and $7 million, with the average being around $1 million to $2 million. The Occupational…
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