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Show THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE. Human life Is priceless, and jet Its value commciclall) und legally Is mene-trod mene-trod arlous stututcs ln the State have undertaken to llx maximum valuation valu-ation upon It that Juries In the an aril of damages In cn-cs of loss of life must not oierpaer Juries ln damige cases tar) so much that their verdicts afford no standard, without cireful elimination elimina-tion of. special Influences A writer some )ears ago undertook to figure out a standard of valuation b) taking the cot of the war for the preservation preserva-tion of th Union, and dividing thnt sum b) the lite lot In the wnr b) the North, nrrlte nt a quotient which would express the value of the Individ-uil Individ-uil life Hut tint )stem evidently Inked an essential element. It left nut the pntilotlc sentiment Involved The men slain notiU not have offered their lives on 1 commercial proposition and nccnrdlngl) tho rntlo of worth nscer-tilncd nscer-tilncd mathemntltally was too lotv; for, nuthematlcnll), the lite were not available on thnt scale A writer In the June Topular Hclencc Month!). Marshall O Lelghton, undertake under-take to reckon tho commerclil value of human life, as determined b) suit nt Hit for wrongful death, considering as far as ma) bo nil the facts that enter Into tho problem, the legal formula for-mula being In general thit ' Tho Jur) ma) gilt uch damages as the) shall deem a fair nnd Just compensation compen-sation with reference to tjie pecuniar) pecuni-ar) Injury resulting from tho dcith" nvemnlnrv oc totnttliit rtnmipp not being permitted Although some States b) express enactment permit Juries to assess punitive damages, Mr Lelghton leaves out Hint element III the compilation of his averages for the pecuniary pe-cuniary worth of a human life nnd he And that a a general 1 ropoMtlon 11 human ife Is worth at S )cars, ubojt 11.00, nt 10, about ?22O0, nt IS, about I23C0, at 20, about 12700, at 23, about i:,00, at 30, about $7300, at 33, about t6S00 at 40, about 17000, at 43, nbout SSC00, at M, about I4SO0, at 53, about I1S00, at CO, about 14300, at C3 about 12000 at 70 about 11000, at 75, about o00, at 80 nothing His conclusions nro that the pecuniary value of life Is subject sub-ject to the same economic laws as are applied to thJ moro vtllcy commodities, that ln courts of law, the incisure of un Individuals productiveness, which Is the measure of his value, recciies the most careful scrutln), nnd therefore the decisions de-cisions of such courts, where existing statute permit nro trustnnrlh) ln determining de-termining an Indltlduils value to his Tamil), that the pccunl try value of a life to Its relatives represents Its pe-cunliT pe-cunliT value ti society, that daiuagci given for 11 mugful duth arc such that the) can be represented by an averago in different uga groups with onl) nar-loit nar-loit limit of probable error as stated above Hint the relation of thesi abe-group abe-group values ona to the other, Is supported sup-ported b) common bbservation nnd statistical sta-tistical reasoning ' Trom these llgures any one can reckon from the overage of d image verdicts, what Ids Hfo Is worth com-meiclall) com-meiclall) Hut It I safe to ay that no man would consider himself In the avcrngt class, ha think that ho ! vtorth more |