Value Of Life: Ripley, And Mitch Albom

The Value of Life We may not ask ourselves what life means to us very often, but when death flashes before your eyes, that is when the true value of life because apparent to us. We are able to get a clearer image of life when we know or become more aware that we may not always have it. Life, is not about a mere calculation of everything you have ever earned or spend in your existence, but rather all the memories you made and experience you had that taught you about yourself. Everyone has a different point of view on how much the value of life means to them. Armstrong and Jenkins, Shakespeare, Ripley, and Mitch Albom have shown how much the value
Amanda Ripley says, “The concept of assigning a price tag to a life has always made people intensely squeamish” (42). In this article Ripley talks about the attack that happened on 9/11. She is talking about the families that lost their love ones in this attack. One of the family member said that the government is putting a price tag on the ones that lost their lives in the attack, by giving money to their families. This person also says that the money that the government is giving them is not going to bring them back or make us stop feeling like they are not here. No matter how much money the government is going to give them it’s not going to bring back the life of their love ones. There never should be a price tag on someone’s
The society makes famous people’s life more valued than others because they have done something for the community. These famous people have made the choices that made become famous. It all depends on the choices you make. If you have done something for the community that causes many good results than the society values your life more than others. It’s what you do that makes the society assign value to your life. Fame does not necessarily mean that your life is valuable it is what you did to receive that fame. A person who gave much to benefit others and became famous is a lot more valuable than someone like Kim Kardashian. For example, Lane Armstrong said, “I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour” (39). In this quote Armstrong is saying that he wants to live his life to fullest, even though he fought cancer he still doesn’t want to stop doing what he loves which is riding a bicycle, and wining Olympics medals. He just wants to live and enjoy his that when he dies people will remember him as one of the champions that did a lot of things for his country, and made everyone proud of