&gt; That old saying that you can&#x27;t put a price on human life<p>It&#x27;s a nice platitude, but it&#x27;s obviously untrue. The unstated implication is that a human life actually has infinite value, which is even more obviously untrue.<p>It&#x27;s easy to find an upper bound on the value of a human life; would you be willing to pay ten trillion dollars of public money (which would otherwise be hypothetically used to finance schools, research, etc.) to save the life of a single child?