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MAG 155 - Cost of Living

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The Value of a Life

"What is the value of a life? Is it something that can be quantified, put down as numbers?" "I'm not saying how I live is right or good, but it is the position I have been put in and a decision I have to make," he says. He asks himself: 'Do I restrain myself, keep my appetite in check even at the cost of my life?' And if so, what then? Do I try to rationalize what I am like, Ms. McEw? Or do I find myself hating her, her callous self-deception?'"

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