What Is a Life Worth?. / Amanda Ripley.
by Ripley, Amanda; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 63Family. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2002ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Reparation | Terrorism -- Economic aspects | Terrorism -- United States | Victims of terrorismDDC classification: 050 Summary: "To compensate families of the victims of Sept. 11 [2001], the government has invented a way to measure blood and loss in cash. A look at the wrenching calculus." (TIME) This article focuses on the monetary compensation awarded to families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and highlights the controversy that erupted when "the courts started to put a dollar value on a life--after death.".
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: What Is a Life Worth?, Feb. 11, 2002; pp. 22-27.
"To compensate families of the victims of Sept. 11 [2001], the government has invented a way to measure blood and loss in cash. A look at the wrenching calculus." (TIME) This article focuses on the monetary compensation awarded to families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and highlights the controversy that erupted when "the courts started to put a dollar value on a life--after death.".
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