Roger Ebert: Discovering The Value Of Life

Charles Darwin once said “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Everyone decides what they value their life as. There are lots of beliefs that human life should be assigned a monetary value. Other believe that the ill and sick people should have a lesser value of life. However, the human life should not be valued by anything other than morally and if there was to be put a monetary value, it should be on those that died and were the main source of income for a family. Roger Ebert was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had many tough surgeries that made him rethink his value of life. “I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear (Jones 32).” Even Ebert is ready and accepting death because he says that he does not fear it. He also states that “ I hope to be spared as much pain as possible” shows us that he would like to die slowly, but with as little pain as possible. Roger Ebert values his life less due to his illness, but still lives on and enjoys it as much as possible. …show more content…
“ Susan and Harvey of Blomberg of Fairfield County, Conn., have been to three meetings on the victim compensation fund, even though, as parents of a victim who has left a wife and kids behind, they are not in line for compensation (Ripley 25).” This shows us readers that some families do not have a money value on life and do not care for compensation. All they value life by is having that human there with them and enjoying their presence. “Some September 11 families say they might file answers about what led to a death, even if they never get a dime.” There are lots of families, including these ones in the quote that show that they do not care about the money after a loved one has been