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The Value of Life




What exactly is the value of life? No, I am not talking about life from an insurance cover point of view nor significance of life from a business point of view nor from an economic value of life. I am looking at the value of life from purely the way one lives life. I am thinking about how the quality of life adds to the value of life.

The following are few indicative questions to think and reflect upon. You may add your own or choose a totally different set of questions to determine the value of life.
 
What I am talking about is what difference does life make? 

What happens when you die? 

What would you lose if you die? 

What would you gain if  from continue to live? 

Who will cry when you die? 

How different would life be if you continue to live? 

How do the people around you see you? 

Do they all value you the same or does each one see a different value? 

Whilst you are at these questions do remember that the value of your life depends upon where you decide to place yourself. The value of a diamond in hands of a common person differs from the value of the diamond in the hands of a diamond merchant/collector. 

It doesn’t matter where you come from, where you were born, the colour of your skin, or how much money you were born into but what matters is the eyes that see it. Are those eyes of the common person or that of the diamond merchant. That will determine the value of life.




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